Okay, so I know I'm aweful at updating this thing, but hopefully, that won't be an issue anymore as Tuesday are our finals. That's right! We have finals Tuesday and then for now one just Direct Research! To bring everybody up-to-date we have been to Amboseli National Park about 5 times and Tsavo once. Moses, one of the professors who's phrase is "my cup is overflowed with joy" refers to Amboseli as a giant zoo, because of the number of species that reside in the park. This is an issue that we are discussing and figuring out solutions for, one of the very many. Culling-the killing of a specie to reduce its number by park officials, in this case elephants, is being discussed. There are too numerous and destroying the biodiversity in the area. They can't expand, because the land is owned by the Maasia whos land has already been reduced to
small fragments by national parks. It's troubling to see.
So besides that, Tsavo is a larger park that contains the man-eating lions. 'The Ghost and the Darkness' was regarding the two lions in this area. We heard many of them during the night roaring, but none came to camp. We were surrounded by our vehicles and spotlights and 4 armed esqaries (guards). Two had Ak-47 and two had spears, which I have purchased. I am coming back with a small armed force. No worries, already checked with the airlines and everything is okay to bring them aboard. In Tasvo, we had squaters, which are most pleasent, especially for the women here! No showers for 6 days and same clothing for the same amount of time. It was beautiful!
Okay, so what I have seen is too many to tell, but the empressive ones include of course the elephants, lions-6 feet away, elands, warthogs-the greatest thing to see run, an attacking baboon in attempt to get our food, sykes monky, black rhino and wild dog. Still have not seen a leopard or a cheetah, but soon will as we were told Nairobi National Park contains them and they are numerous there.
We have had black mambas in our camp several times, but no one has been hurt by them, although one person has had to be sent home, Conrad, due to heart complications. This has just happened and he is going tomorrow.
The people are great and the professors are awesome. They each have their little things they do which the class finds amuzing. The kids at times swarm the vehicles and us when we are teaching them something, drawing in the dirt or taking pictures. Some of them, I have let take pictures and are very amuzing when doing so.
Yesturday, we hiked Latoktok and I jumped up and scaled a rock to get to the highest point on the hill. I was the only one who achieved this great climb......When we came back down, there were two vehicles that took us back to our little shin-dig. However, it was a race and on these roads it's almost impossible to go fast, but somehow we did. The cars only go 80km per hour which supposively shut down if it is above this speed.
Today we went to Latoktok and planted trees with a partner from a second
ary school. I was with a guy named Lantoi who is 18 years old and lives in Amboseli. This is an eight hour walk for him from home to school, but he only goes home every 3-4 weeks. He has a little sister and a mother, but no father. He already has 7 cows and 13-15 shoats (goats and sheep), which is really good. Cattle for the Maasai shows how wealthy one is. Most have anywhere from 20-40 cows and 50 shoats. Anyways, the men here hold hands with people from their own age group and particulary a good friend. Women do the same, but when a female and a male hold hands it is considered that they are sleeping with eachother. So many times, you will find guys and me holding hands with other guys. Besides planting trees, we helped plow a field by hand and planted tomotatoes. It was another great and wonderful day here in Kenya. Tomorrow, we get up at 7 to have breakfast have class from 8-12, lunch and then another class 2-4. I have completed laundry, 'by hand' for the week and am ready to turn in. Thank you all for those who have commented and following up. I started to think no one was even reading this.
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small fragments by national parks. It's troubling to see. 
ary school. I was with a guy named Lantoi who is 18 years old and lives in Amboseli. This is an eight hour walk for him from home to school, but he only goes home every 3-4 weeks. He has a little sister and a mother, but no father. He already has 7 cows and 13-15 shoats (goats and sheep), which is really good. Cattle for the Maasai shows how wealthy one is. Most have anywhere from 20-40 cows and 50 shoats. Anyways, the men here hold hands with people from their own age group and particulary a good friend. Women do the same, but when a female and a male hold hands it is considered that they are sleeping with eachother. So many times, you will find guys and me holding hands with other guys. Besides planting trees, we helped plow a field by hand and planted tomotatoes. It was another great and wonderful day here in Kenya. Tomorrow, we get up at 7 to have breakfast have class from 8-12, lunch and then another class 2-4. I have completed laundry, 'by hand' for the week and am ready to turn in. Thank you all for those who have commented and following up. I started to think no one was even reading this. 
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