Kakamega Forest, Hippo Point and the Impala Sanctuary

Last Saturday, I went to Kakamega Forest. Kakamega Forest is the oldest forest in all of Africa and once, it covered all of eastern Africa and we took a tour though it! We saw three different types of monkeys, the Colobus, the Blue and the Red-Tailed monkey.
there are actually 4 types of monkeys in the forest, there is also the Sykes monkeys but we didn't see any of them in the forest, we saw them at the impala park, which I'll tell you about later. The monkeys live in groups of up to 40 and they mix, as in, there can be a colobus and a blue monkey in the same pack. Also, we saw lotan of types of trees. there were lots of trees like Fig trees and Eldon teak trees and Red and White stink trees.The Fig trees eat other trees by growing in and around it. There was also a tree that is really wide at the bottom and the baboons pound on it like a drum! Some of the tree live to be up to 400 years old! They also have a butterfly conservatory which is part of their education program.
After Kakamega, we went to Hippo Point, on lake Victoria. Once there, we went on a very long boat(which had a leak in it, so we had to keep bail it out), we saw three hippos, the parents and there young. It was really cool but I didn't I didn't get to see them open their mouth. We also went to a fishing village to look at the fish that they caught and I learned that there is a very big fishthat isn't supposed to be there and it is eating all the smaller native fish.
after that, we went to the Impala Sanctuary. They had lots of different animals like leopards, cheetahs, lions, hyenas, baboons, ostriches and bison. They also had wild impalas and Sykes monkeys. One of the female Sykes monkeys was carrying a baby monkey and I went over to it but it ran away and a big male jumped out of a tree and ran towards me like he was going to attack me!

School, Games, Songs, and milking the cow

I did alot of things while I was at the village. One of the things I did was going to the Kandaria Secondary School. I was In Form 1 which is equivalent to grade 9 but the work was only grade 5 level. Kenyan schools are alot different from Canadian schools. Some of the differences are that in Kenya they have much longer days(6am-5pm!), they have nothing on the walls but in Canada,the walls are very colorful, they have to have a school uniform, and they cane people who misbehave!
At the centre, I taught the kids lots of games using rubber chickens like Capture The Chicken, Chuck The Chicken and Duck Duck Chicken. I've also taught them lots of card games like Ratuki, Jungle speed and Uno. There are some somgs that I've taught them too like Bananas Unite and The Penguin Song, which I learned at Camp Bimini. Something else that I did was milk the cow! It was very hard because I had to do it by hand. Simon, the boy who usually milks the cow can milk it in only 6 minutes and he does it every day of the year!!

Ligusa Crossroads Community Centre & Childrens Home

Right now, I am at Bondo University College. I wasn't able to post any thing at the Lou village because there wasn't any electricity or wifi but I can tell you all about it now.
The community centre was not like how I expected it. It has lots of buildings, lots of animals and it is very green because it rains alot since it is the Short Rains Season. Also, it has no running water right now but they will have it soon.
The children here are very nice. They don't usually talk much and I don't see them very much but they do under stand English.
As I mentioned, there are alot of buildings; some of them are dormitories for the kids, the church, George's house, Mama Ananga's house, the international visitors house(that's where we live), and two other spare mud houses. There is also a school that they are still building and a health clinic that is still being painted but has delivered 4 babies.
Let me tell you a little bit more about the children's home. In each dormitory, the boys and the girls, there are seven bunk beds, which we helped pay for, 14 beds in total in each room and some don't have mattresses and they sleep two to a bunk. That means that 56 of them are in a bunk and some have to sleep on the floor! They don't have very many toys, in fact, all they have is the stuff we gave them and a box DOUPLO LEGO and a busted soccer ball(they especially liked the skipping ropes, the soccer balls and the rubber chickens for the chicken games). another room is the dining room,m which is just some benches and tables. It is very dark in there. Outside, they have a place to play but it is very dirty and rocky.

Tomorrow I'm buying some chickens for the orphanage. I will post more on Thursday about what I have been doing.