Coral Palm Beach Hotel Mombasa

... a life similar to the one we had left. This seems more apparent since the election &#8216;problems&#8217; of 2007 caused the tourism economy to plummet in Kenya.<br>Here we took the opportunity to start our PADI Diving course and did two 12m dives where we saw several sea turtles, eels, lobster along with the spectacular coral reef and fish. Sarah was able to run on the beach too which kept her happy!<br><br>

... sponsor me?", she asked. "I have no way to continue school." Rurine wants to become a doctor. Just months prior, during a bout of pneumonia, she was saved by the doctors of her local hospital. This forever changed her life. "I want to save people's lives like the doctors did for me.", Rurine told us. "My sister just died. She was in standard 4." (fourth grade). "I also lost my other sister who was 2. Now, I am the only one ...

... raw cow meat. After the feeding we went to the reptile enclosure where I handled a live python. We saw many different types of local Kenyan snakes including the Black Mamba and Cobra. After which we saw some carnivorous plants such as the pitcher plant. Following which we entered the aquarium to see live marine fish and corals. We saw the Moray eel ...

... the daily gloomy economic situation and other pretty dire issues facing the rest of the world (not by reading the German version of OK magazine- which I trust implicity!) but via the internet and BBC World Wide Service and other international reporting channels; all very scary and maddening too; maybe it won't be long before redundant blue collar workers are selling English apples from a stall off the A3 soon - I ...

... find, there is a strong sense of family and trying to make the best out of life. so i dont feel sorry for them comparing how i felt when i first arrived! I have a respect and admiration for the joy they take from small things, the warmt they have for us strangers who walk through their villages, and the continous smile they leave on my face so it is with a heavy heart that i face my farewells tomorrow, but also memories that will never be forgotten. m x

... ride there and back was an adventure in itself but there were also quite a few funny moments while at the beach including.... - "Mama Zina" (lady shopkeeper we met) who kicked some guys out of their house/painting studio so that I could get changed in there. - two beach boys who followed us around when we first got there showing us some sea life and then afterwords demanding that we either buy something from them or pay them for the 'tour'. I finally caved and ...

... He asked us many questions which compared Islam to Christianity. It was difficult to tell to which he leaned. Benson's family and a couple of neighbors completed the group. We all had a meal at Benson's afterwards. It was very nice to meet the brethren in that part of the country and spend a day with them. On Sunday morning we flew back to Nairobi.

... ll fill you in when i get home. Then we went to see the tusks of Mombasa and we went shoping. They have some awesome things there. We ate lunch, i got Pizza. I think i got my junk food fix for a while, i was not feeling well after all of these big meals because i am not used to the processed food any more. We then waited for the bus. On the bus again we has some issues with a drunk man. He would not shut up and was also chewing that drug also. Even with how addicting this ...

... Saleem) and will be back in Guelph the evening of Dec 14th, more than 2 weeks earlier than planned. I'm feeling pretty good about this, I'm very excited to get back and see many of you again, get back into working full-time, integrating lessons learned into my life. I also think that if I spend much longer on the coast you won't recognize me as I darken by the minute - It's only been 3 days and I still have 10 to go! One final note: I have just today confirmed ...

... into a Matatu and Pastor Oda directed us to Bombalulu, his district of Mombasa. We had to go off the island of the city and up the coast to the North. We passed thatch-roofed homes and piles of garbage. Goats run through the streets and everyone would stare when they saw three white people in their village. We stopped on some random dirt road and followed Pastor Oda as he led us to the school he started. It was a three-room concrete building that housed three ...