Happy Mother's Day

Happy (belated- sorry I'm a bad daughter) birthday and Mother's Day Mom! I hope you're been having a wonderful and pampered weekend! Happy Mother's Day to all the other wonderful women in my life who've been keeping up with my stories!

This week has finally felt like life is back on track. I feel like I've finally gotten back into my groove. that said, there's not much to report.
Last Sunday we went for a hike in the Kakamega rainforest with the other two CMMB volunteers in Kenya- Cristy and Lauren. They live in Karungu which is on Lake Victoria, near the border with Tanzania. They live two hours from the closest dirt road and their town has no electricity or running water. Needless to say, our little place in Kenya felt like a wonderful slice of civilization. We had a chance to hike up to an overlook that the sister had told me about with incredible views of the countryside and the Nandi Escarpment- check out the pics on my Picasa page.
Work this week was like any other with a little bit of play therapy mixed in with admin tasks and reading the news paper. Friday the center had a training on epilepsy that I missed to go with Judi to the Provintial Hospital in Kakamega. One of our clients- Luka- is failing to thrive and the docs in Malava are stumped. He saw the peds specialist at the hospital in Kakamega and told us that malnutrition is his biggest problem- which we already knew b/c the family is very poor- but that he also needed to have his heart checked out. He needs an echo from a hospital in Eldoret so for now he's admitted in Kakamega and I'll take him for an echo next week. I got Mariah Carey and Bob Marley tapes from a store in Kakamega for the long drive there and back. It looks like I'll be driving when ever Judi needs me to so if anyone wants to send me their old cassette tapes from home- that would be great. Remember, small padded envelops only take about ten days to get here!
Otherwise, life has been pretty normal. A large group of children have taken to playing at Michael and Tom's house in the afternoons so I got to play with them for a little while yesterday and today. They're such good kids, Michael and Tom are really lucky to have their company.

Thats all for this week.