to begin again, or not...

Wow, I must apologize profusely for not making a post in the past 6 weeks. I have no idea where I would even begin, so for now I won't. The past two months have been both incredible and terrible at various points, and I am learning so much. In two days (early in the morning on Saturday, the 8th of December) I fly to meet my dear friends Dustin and Cara in Malawi. I will be staying with them in a town in southern Malawi called Balaka, and meeting all the kids of Bola Moyo (the non-profit I worked with all last year) that I have heard about for so long. While I am there I anticipate that I will not have internet access. Anyone who urgently needs to reach me can call me on my friend Cara's phone:

+265 04104731
(for all of you in the states, I believe that means you'd dial 011-00265-04104731. If you have a hard time, try omitting some of the zeroes.)

Ten days after that, on the 18th, I fly to Johannesburg, where I will meet up with Nathan after not seeing him for 2.5 months. A few days after that we fly to Cape Town where we'll be spending Christmas. I anticipate having much better internet access in SA than I've had here in Kenya, and at that point I'll be uploading some photos to this blog! Stay tuned!

In the meantime, here is a (sorry, poor quality) photo I took of the sunset last night here in Takaungu while I was at a friend's house for dinner. After it got dark, the stars were so beautiful I could not stop staring at the sky. I wish I could have captured it and shared it with all of you.



I come back to this beautiful place on the third of January.

Happy holidays everyone. You are greatly missed.

~Desirée