Hello from the Harris cousins!!

Hi everyone. 

We are now a week through the building project and we are positively flying! We have completed the walls of the classroom up to the ring beam and are starting to construct the roof trusses.

JAMES' DAY

Team One, consisting of Mike W, Max, Jonny, Rachel S, Jaimy, Matthew and I, were treated to their second rest day. Cameron will have his turn tomorrow.

The second rest day was a trip to Lake Baringo, where we took a boat ride around the lake in the search of the native wildlife. We were not disappointed...

Our guides bought four fish stuffed with balsa wood from a Masi fisherman paddling on the lake in his rickety wooden boat; we thankfully were in more stable metal vessel. The guide threw two of the fish - one at a time - into lake near the boat. This attracted a white headed eagle to swoop from their tree and pluck the fish from the surface, providing a stunning photo opportunity.

He used the other two fish in a similar way to attract one of the 1500 crocodiles to a mere three feet from the boat. It was scary and exhilarating at the same time!!

The boat ride was concluded with a trip to 'Love Island' which is inhabited by one man, his five wives and their twenty seven children.

The only thing a bit disappointing was that we didn't see any Hippos, but we've got out fingers crossed for the relaxation period.

After the boat ride we drove to a hotel to use their pool and their washing facilities, as well as to have a lovely steak, which our camp diet has been lacking massively.

Only in Kenya would an ostrich wander on to the poolside of a hotel swimming pool. Jaimy 'Attenborough' Jackson tried to get a photo up close, but he scared the birds away.

With clean hair and feeling refreshed we returned to camp.

If you haven't guessed I'm having a fantastic time in Kenya, and my best wishes go to all my family and friends.

TTFN, and over to Cameron...

CAMERON'S DAY

With the now normal wake up of 7am. Work resumed, by filtering sand and mixing batches for the ring beams. This continued until we where Invited to the Kenyan flag break. Everything was in sync.(much more impressive than our flag break). This marked the start of the school day for the children and breakfast us. No matter what was on offer everyone had it. As food is a scare resource much like water. The work was similar for the rest of the day. Soon everyone will be back to brick laying. But we have to make the ring beam completed first. As for the rest of the trip everyone Is clean and happy. With the occasional sickness, started off by me with a incident on the bus. I am fine now and so is the rest of the team.   (Yes I have had several washes and washes my clothes Mam and Dad). Only  19 days.  until we are back in the Uk. Say hello to everyone back home and hope everyone is ok.

Bye for now, missing friends and family.

Cameron

PS: James was not in that photo. :)

Tutwanana from the Harris cousins. See you all soon!