Day 8 (9/13)
This morning we had our field lecture. I do not mean we went outside our chumba (classroom) and sat on the ground. By field lecture I mean we drove an hour on Kenyan roads (dusty, bumpy and completely uneven) to a secluded spot (saw giraffes, zebras and gizelle along the way) and parked next to a small mountain and climbed 30-40 minutes to the top, sat on a huge boulder and had class. Just for fun. The hike going up was around 45 degrees in spots and straight up in other areas and really rocky, I couldn’t decide which was better, going up or attempting to go down. But either way, tons of fun! And Daniel was doing his Maasai warrior cry (a high pitched shriek) coming down, at first I thought someone was dying, then I realized it was Daniel and I thought he was scaring away a buffalo or something. Turns out he does that for fun. But anyway, the view was incredible you could see from Kili to the Chyulu Hills on the complete other side, which is endless miles that only the eye can see. Below us the bomas (villages) and giraffes looked like little play figures and the sound of drums in the background was a surreal highlight of the entire climb. Another cool aspect of being so high up was being able to see where the rangeland soil went from red to white to black-grey. Not to mention everyone has a beautiful red-dust tan that seems to only wash off for the few minutes that you get to shower and after that all bets are off. AND on the way back we saw camels. I swear to God. A herd of camels, just roaming around a village. They said its usually rich people that have them, I took pictures to prove it to everyone. Camels, can you believe it?
P.S. The cat almost pee’d on everyone again today. Haha its terrible.
Weather report: 75-80, sunny, zero humidityl few clouds, dusty. Very dusty. But don’t feel bad, its gets down to about 50 at night so it evens out a bit.