Hey all!

Sorry about the delay between posts-it took me a bit to edit some of these and put them up, cause I've got a lot of little things to occupy my time.

I've been emailing a bunch of photojournalists in the area and am meeting up with a couple in the next few weeks, so I'll keep you all posted as to how that goes.

My 16-35 was supposed to come yesterday, but didn't and if it doesn't come today, I might freak out a bit. I literally dreamed about it last week.

Classes here are lots of fun-I'm in a development class taught by this great guy named Dr. Jama, and a Kenyan politics and history class taught by a hilarious man named Fred Jonyo, who has monogrammed every single shirt he owns.

I'll update with more details later today, but I wanted to get these pictures up. Talk to you soon!

Kenya!

Mambo from Kenya!

I know all of you have been waiting with baited breath for me to update the blog, and I'm sorry for the delay, but I had to wait a bit before I had a good enough internet connection to upload some photos. I won't give the full update here- I've sent out emails to most people, and if you didn't get one just comment and I'll fill you in.

I love it here! The country is absolutely beautiful. We had our orientation in Lake Nakuru National Park, about 3 hours outside of Nairobi. There we went on a bunch of game drives and I saw a ton of animals (photos below).

I just ordered my 16-35L, which should make its way to Kenya sometime in the next week or so, and once it does I'll upload more pictures of the city itself-the 70-200 doesn't lend itself to scene-setting. Its a sprawling city with a constant crush of people-there are around 3 million people in the city itself, and another 3 million or so living in the slums-1 million live in Kibera alone, which is only about 1 sq. mile. I went grocery shopping with my brother and sister (I'm living in a homestay just on the edge of Kibera, with four sisters and a brother) downtown on Friday and I couldn't believe the number of people pressed into this enormous grocery/everything store. I love love cities, so I am absolutely having a great time.

Friday night I went with some friends to a club called Carnivore-it was a cultural night celebrating a particular tribe, the Kalingi. The club was huge-there were easily 1000+ people there. The clubs here don't close, so we were out until 4:30. It was pretty amazing.

As I take photos, and stuff happens, I'll put it up here-look for updates about once a week, maybe more frequently as I get settled in.

Tutaonana!

Jake