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Tacos or Butt Cheeks?

This story takes place while I was still staying with my home stay family in Naivasha, Kenya. During the day we were in language and cultural classes. The evenings we spent with our new families - talking, having dinner, the sisters helping me with swahili, me helping them with their math. One night when I arrived home, I realized we would be eating early as dinner was already started. Mama Mary (as so named after her first born, named Mary) was home and called to me "Robin, oka,...
Market Camouflage

Camouflaged by colorful market ware of sarongs and capulanas
Local materials

My sitemate fashioning a reed door for our fence
Local Helpers

The building of our fence became a neighborhood event, and these kids showed up to "help out." If nothing else, they provided reliable entertainment and comic relief.
Little Brother

My host brother was showing off his climbing skills for the camera.
Crianças

A neighborhood friend showing off her baby sister
Xai-Xai Science Fair

Students explaining their experiments to peers at the regional science fair
Bubble Bonanza

Blowing bubbles with neighborhood children.
Bubble-Blowing Contest

My sitemate and two neighborhood kids, competing to blow the biggest bubble.
Bubble-Blowing Lesson

Neighborhood kids constantly come over to play and ask for drawing materials and magazines, and one day when they came to ask for soap for blowing bubbles, we had a bubble-blowing extravaganza. Here, my sitemate is showing them how to blow big bubbles with their hands.

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