Welcome to the 3 K’s: K-MET, Kisumu, Kenya

October 29th, 2008 — , K-MET, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Kenya, Kisumu, Kusumu Medical & Education Trust (K-MET), africa, sarah forbes  from scmforbes @ Kiva Stories from the Field

When I last corresponded with you, dear Kiva Fellows Blog reader, I was still in my home country, chucking trespassing snakes out of my house and considering whether just one bottle of Pepto-Bismol would be enough for 10 months on a foreign continent. 
I write to you now from my desk at K-MET, in Kisumu Kenya, [...]

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snake! in my house!

October 6th, 2008 — , KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Kenya, africa, sarah forbes  from scmforbes @ Kiva Stories from the Field

I found a snake in the living room closet.

I had been trying to mentally prepare for just this sort of moment, imagining myself cool and collected, taking snakes in the house in my stride. “Oh, just another snake!” I’d smile to everyone as I calmly shooed the snake from the house, proving myself not some [...]

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Mambo Jambo

September 18th, 2008 — , KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Kenya, Uncategorized, sarah forbes  from scmforbes @ Kiva Stories from the Field

Jambo everyone! Or, to prove that I’m “in the know”, Mambo!
Okay, so these may be the only two words I know in Swahili at this point, but I am expecting/hoping that my vocabulary will exponentially increase in the next 13 weeks. At this moment, I am sitting among 29 other, and infinitely more interesting than [...]

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