Another day in Kenya

The last few days we haven't done anything quite as exciting as visiting the orphanage, VCT and club. We have been working really hard on our research project, most hours of the day. On Monday we went out to the field and did a pre-test for our questionnaire. The young woman that we talked to was 19 years old and already had a 10 month old and was married to a 28 year old man. There were a ton of kids around while we were administering the survey and they could not leave me and my friend who was doing the survey with me alone! The kids kept asking for my watch and pen and were very intrigued by my hair...while I was recording the information, the kids began to sniff my hair.

Other than that we have been stuck inside the SFS base working all day. Somedays I get to go on runs and the local kids run up to the fence and watch us...kind of makes me feel like a zoo animal.

Today, we were surprised by the staff! They decided that we were working really hard so they decided to take us to the Kimana club again! We all got to have a little Tusker...very nice. Another nice surprise was that they had diet coke!!! Diet coke in Kenya is like an endangered species...hard to come by! I was so excited that I decided to buy a bunch of bottles and bring them back to the base with me :) They now have no more diet coke haha we sold them out.

Tomorrow we begin our field work for the questionnaire. It's going to be lots of long days!