When I signed up for the race I knew that the places I'd live would be quite different from what I'm used to – city life. I figured life would get pretty rural at some point and this month it most certainly did. We've been living on a small farm in Western Kenya this month and to say that I'm a bit out of my element is a HUGE understatement. The following is a list of things I never thought I'd find myself saying! Enjoy 
“I just want to sleep and not think about the rat in the cabinet”
“Well, today I got water from the well and then milked a cow”
Getting water from the well
Directions to town: “Step outside the gate and make a right on the dirt road. Walk until the path turns left at the sugar cane fields. Keep walking on the path until the first barbed wire fence on your right, you’ll see a small dirt path along it: follow it. Jump over the creek. Follow the path along the sugar cane, watch out for cow pies, until you reach a farm. Cut across the front yard; walk around the outhouse and onto the road through the tall sugar cane. Follow that road till it ends at another dirt road, make a left, take that road to a large and busy dirt road, make a right and walk 1 mile until you reach Malava town.”
Me: “We just milked the cow!”
Jen: “How’d it go?”
Me:”Ummm…. If my survival depended on my ability to milk a cow I’d be dead”
Joseph showing us how to milk the cow
“I’d really like to go lay in my hammock but there’s a baby cow eating under it”
“I tried taking a nap on the mat but I woke up surrounded by chickens”
Some of the many chickens that roam the property
Me: “I woke up because it sounded like someone was throwing giant sacks of flour on the ground over and over”
Jen: “I thought they were chopping wood”
Me: “Oh…. Yeah that makes more sense”
“One of the houses we visited today gave us a gift… a chicken!”
The offering basket at church one sunday, yep those are eggs!
– Jess
