Trip information, agenda, and a message to readers/followers!

Hey everyone!

The blog works! This is the website we will be using to mass-communicate with the outside world (aka- our family, friends, and other concerned persons). For those of you who have briefly heard about our plans, here are some more details:

• We are going to a region in Kenya (eastern Africa) to complete our Elementary Education internship requirements by teaching in Pre-school-8th grade classrooms.
• Kenya has a national curriculum that requires their students to pass classes both in Swahili and English, so we will have academic subjects to teach.
• We will be in a region called Kasigau. You can Google Map it for the location--try the satellite option. It shows the region in detail.
• We will be there for about 7 weeks.
• We will have some time to play (!) after we finish our internship.
• We want to stay connected (somewhat) to the outside world, hence the blog!

Here's some info about the blog: We can upload text, pictures and links. We're not sure how frequently we'll be accessing the internet--that's something we'll sort out when we get there. We're also not sure what type of internet access we will have. If it's dial-up, the pictures may have to wait until we get home!

You can read the posts, follow us if you like and leave comments as you wish. All six of us (Molly, Amy, Chanda, Jesse, Julie and Madeline) will all have control of the content, so please feel free to leave messages for anyone! We look forward to your comments, so please leave them, even if it's just to say 'hi' or 'watch out for lions'.

Here are some brief trip details: we leave on June 14th--one week from tomorrow! We fly out of Vancouver, B.C. in the evening and have a (roughly) 5 hour lay-over in Amsterdam before taking another evening flight to Nairobi. We end up in Nairobi, Kenya on the morning of the 16th to meet up with Ken and Kris--our two professors.

That's about it for now! Thanks for reading!

Madeline (and the other 5)