While home for break, I found out that I will be traveling back to Kenya in March to lead a trip. I am extremely excited about this for a few reasons:
1) I'll be facilitating with a dear friend of mine, Galen, whom I don't see nearly enough. From the moment I moved to Toronto, Galen and I were destined to be friends. After our first conversation I learned he was from New Hampshire and went to Wheaton College! We were basically neighbors but never met :)
2) I'll be going back to Osenetoi, the community I was at in the summer time. I'm very excited to see the same kids and teachers that were there last year. Also, since the two classrooms we were working on are finished (I'll attach a photo below), I'm excited to see what the project will be.
3) I'll be traveling to Mombasa for a week after with two friends, Larissa and Taylor. We'll be spending six days on the coast at a beautiful hostel, spending one night in a treehouse hostel (yes they exist) on the beach, go snorkeling, eat lots of Kenyan food, and have a little R&R.
My only nervousness about leading this trip is that it is a group trip, which can be good or bad. In the summer time most trips are open trips, so you have 20+ youth that most likely have never met. This is good because it helps to create a team unity and cohesion as well as a defined "safe space". When the group comes already knowing each other, you risk there already being problems between certain youth or an already established group dynamic... that's not to say that the opposite could happen and they're already a fantastic team. So the trip should be interesting, definitely amazing, and I'm excited to see what it holds.
I will be sure to update with plenty of pictures and stories from both the trip and my traveling afterwards. I'm very excited to go back to Kenya and see all the beautiful faces I've missed so much. Until next time...
Two Osenetoi classrooms completed... Read more about the community here.
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