back in Ireland

Hello, it is almost a week since I returned back to Ireland...

I am currently busy writing a few articles about the World Social Forum and the GYG... It is a sunny day today...
I went to the Dublin Food Coop and I met Lara, an Irish friend of mine. We had a look at the photographs from Kenya and some of the Magazine. Lara is in charge of the local gardener group in Finglas, near where I work.
Back in the City centre, I met Eli, and other Catalans friends at the Farmers Market... I had nice memories of the stay in Kenya and wish I will be able to return... until then goodbye


In attachment a photo taken in Nairobi at the conference with Wangari Matthai. I addressed a question to her about the Green Belt movement and I was delighted to hear the answer in front of the venue full of young activists

visit to Kibera, Kwaheri Kenya-agur Kenya1

Today finally is the last day of the journey....


It is a day to say goodbye-Kwaheri in Swahili and to thank and share e-mails and phones with people...

I had the opportunity to visit the Kibera Youth Community Project in the morning.
Kibera is the biggest Favela( they don't like it here to call it Slum)...

It is not far from the City, it reminds me to Rio de Janeiro, and the favela Rozinha.
I went with Tom, the Aussie from the GYG and with Frank a local who brought us to the hear of Kibera...

We participated at a discussion about mussic and it was nice to share some experiences being a pianist...

The sanitation, waste treatment, water supply and other environmental services almost don't exist...we went to visit some of the dumping sites, where there isn't division of waste and it seems that there are not recycling facilities...
There were lot of kids around, and some people working with craft...
music is still quite important, and you could read messages such as #audio# for rent, as a type of disco in Kibera.

The main reason for the visit is to write a report and send it to Dunkan, an irish friend from college, based in Barcelona and currently writing a lot on this...

more details on Kibera done by Dunkan
kenya.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/450.php -

If you had the opportunity to watch the Constant gardener film also filmed in Kibera

http://www.filmstew.com/Content/Article.asp?Pg=1&ContentID=12233

In the afternoon I was back at the venue of the forum to continue interpreting, this time the last session of the International Council meeting.
A big pleasure to be interpreting together with a Galizan who also works as an interpreter for the European parliament...

Simultaneous interpreting is normally done in a cabin,but here the facilities were not there...

The event finished and I had an interview with a woman activist from Kenya involved in the Debt relief campaign who is also good friend of Nessa, an Irish friend of mine.

Will continue with some updates in the blog. but the flight is leaving tonight and want to make sure that the passport is in a safe place until now

Kwaheri Kenya

Out of Africa-Memorias de Africa-visit to Karen Blixen house

Dear readers

Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit the Karen Blix Museum, from Out of Africa film #Memorias de Africa# see some story below...
It is not far from Nairobi city centre... I was there in the morning as I had to be back to continue interpreting at the afternoon. The World Social Forum is finished but there were still some meetings by the International Council to decide about the next venue for the forum and to reflect the output of this forum.


I enjoyed so much to had the opportunity to visit the Museum, which is in fact the house where she was living. Photographs in the house are not permitted,
Everything has been maintained as in the old times...
see more info below



Some information about Karen Blixen

Baroness Karen Blixen moved to Africa in 1914. At the foot of Ngong hills, she established herself as a farmer. After her departure in 1931, the suburbs retained the commemorative home of Karen.

At independence, the Danish government donated the house and the surrounding land to Kenya. The house was restored by the Danish government and was used during the filming of 'Out of Africa'. The museum was opened to the public in 1986.

The house built in 1910 has a red tile roof and mellow wood paneling in the rooms. When Baroness Karen Blixen bought the property in 1917, it had 6,000 acres of land. Only 600 acres were developed for growing coffee; the rest was retained under natural forest...

In the evening we went into town with some Kenyan interpreters... it was an area full of pubs and restaurants,,, but not everything was colourful as we saw a sad incident with some teenagers and we left with a sad feeling of being not able to help in the situation. We were adviced by the taxi driver, ( who is one of the local interpreters to leave the area) as it was not safe to be around at this time of the night...
Street violence in Kenya is a fact...

After being at the World Social forum, where some locals were excluded from participating ( because of the high entrance fee) I realised that the story continues... more to comment on this in the next blogs

Kakuru Lake National Park

Hello everybody,

Last Thursday we visited a National Park, around 160 km from Nairobi.
It was an organised trip with a local guide who is learning Spanish and had some opportunity to practise and welcome us to the region.

see more information about the park
www.kws.org/nakuru.html -

To visit the Nakuru Lake national park was an amazing experience, it is
based in the Rift Valley, where Prof. Wangari Mathai worked for many years...
the weather was wonderful and the trip was an opportunity to travel around the country and visit some villages.
I was told that white Europeans are called mzungu by the local people.

We learned some kenyans songs and teached some Irish, and Latin American Songs...

Remembering and thinking about my experience as a guide in Ireland and it is really so different here... we were a total of 14 people, mostly interpreters, who travelldd to Nakuru national park. However other people went to other National Park, Amboselly National Park on the border with Tanzania, and they never managed to arrive to the Park.Will post photos soon

There were giraffes, elephants, buffaloes, zebras, and flamingos amonth others...

from the World Social forum today I met Professor Wagari Matthai; Nobel peace price

Dear readers


sorry for not writing earlier; it is difficult to have access to the web::: since the last blog; lots happened:::I am not staying at the camp; instead at the wsf venue:

I had lots of interpreting assignments;mostly consecutive; because part of the equipment for the conference interpreting was missing:::

On Sunday apart from interpreting; I attended an interesting talk on Fair trade organised by IFAT and a seminar of future impacts of climate change organised by UNEP:
The topic of the control of natural ressources has been one of the main topics of the foruM,

i had the opportunity to meet other interpreters; including a Brazilian; and some argentinians*
I went to a talk on carbon credits organised by a Swedish institute where I met Vandana Shiva; Indian environmentalist;


Monday was busy as I had to interpret quite a lot; first in the morning at a brazilian german seminar; later at talk by Oil watch; another one on water resources;and later on another on organised by a peruvian forum!!!! i did not have a lot of time to attend seminars::::

Finally today I interpreted again on the issue of Oil and about Health care in Cuba:

It was remarkable that I had the opportunity to meet the Nobel peace price and ask a question about the green belt tree planting movement**She liked the question and I was amazed by the response:

I was planning to meet Mary robinson; former prime minister of Ireland but she left too early:::

there are some local interpreters fluent in Spanish ,who are tour guides too:::

In general the forum is quite different to the one in Porto alegre Brazil: I will write more on this:


food in kenya is lovely::: people are friendly; robbery very high:::


i will post the photos once I will return back to ireland:::


Jambo

starting of the World Social forum today

Dear readers

greetings from sunny Nairobi. The weather today was very hot, over 30 degrees.. and I am starting to get some colour...
the WSF started today... we went to Kibera, the biggest favela in Africa, start point of the march. From there we continue walking to the Urubu Park.
I had two interviews, one with a french station ( in English) and another with the Brazilian NGO's observatory ( in Portuguese) giving my impression about the forum as well as about previous forums I attended in Porto Alegre.


Just to understand a bit my role in this current social forum. I have been asked to work as an interpreter. It is voluntary work, we will just receive a small allowance.I went to collect my badge yesterday... There were other 300 interpreters, most of them Africans.. there were a few Europeans, including a Basque woman, and an Irish woman, who was the trainer and is a member of BABEL volunteer interpreters group.
I have to say that yesterday's experience was amazing. The Irish woman, Judith, mentioned my name and experience in front of the 300 interpreters. She was happy to listen some news about Ireland. She currently lives in the French Pirinees... sorry for the spelling. I will let you know more about the interpreting during the next coming days...\

Just a few comments about today... the march was good, we were at the end carrying the green flags, I was carrying an Irish one... I did not see any Irish people...just a few Latin Americans ( members of the International Peasant's movement, Via Campesina) some nice girls from Cordoba Solidaria in the South of Spain and few other journalist.
I had the opportunity to go to the area of the artist, as I met the cultural organiser a few days ago. .. Most of the musicians were Africans except a Brazilian singer... The interviews went well. I have to run to the bus, the other Greeners are waiting... until now take care

will post more photos soon,,,,

Some photos-tree planting

niko sawa, kuna joto sana nairobi

I am back writing, since it was difficult to have access to the net, which is quite slow here in Kenya.

Just to explain that what I wrote above means "I am doing fine, it is very warm in Nairobi"

I still participating at the gathering of the GYG, 12 km from Nairobi... We are at the USI University, and we are staying at a Camp, approximately 150 people from all around the world. As I mentioned previously I am sharing the tent with 2 South Korean girls and a new girl arrived yesterday, Christine. She is a Kenyan biologist currently living in Germany. Lovely girl!!!She was living in Tanzania, and met her current husband, who is a University lecturer and was her lecturer too. Hope that we will be able to meet again in Germany or Ireland.

Yesterday we had a fantastic evening, as a group of kenyan playing percussion and dancing came to the Camp to play and dance. The name in Swahili is wanamuziki wa kiasili. It was amazing, afro-music, it reminds me of the Afri Brazilian music from
the Capoeira....good interaction between european, africans and the rest of the participants... even at midnight an australian jumpled into the swimming pool...

I had a nice chat with an australian girl, Nicola from Perth, about views on climate change in Australia, about politics, indigenous people's rights together with Robin a Swiss researcher from Bern.

This morning I was walking to the University and talking to Martha, expecting a baby in 5 months and staying at the camp too. She is originally from Eritrea and currently living in Ethiopia. She is quite interested in women issues. She works
for an NGO on the field of Sustainable Development.


Today we had good discussions about the goals and mission of the organisations.
I met some nice people from Barcelona, one of them Naia, just elected to the Catalan parliament.

I was in charge of facilitating one of the sessions this morning.... it is going well. Something it is difficult to remember the names.

Tomorrow will be a long day, as we are going to plant trees in the morning. The Green Belt Movement is hosting the event. It seems that now is not the best season for planting trees....


Now, just changing the topic to the World Social Forum, I got a message from Dunk, an Irish friend of mine living in Barcelona, who sent me a contact of a Kenyan community activist working in Kibera, the biggest "favela" ( they don't like to call it slum) in Africa. There is going to be a community radio program in Barcelona about Kibera. I will arrange a meeting for Saturday

more info about Kibera coming soon. If you watch the film called "The gardener" this was screened in Kibera....


"Macharias journey: Kibera and a story of Hope"
kibera:
Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya is one of the largest slums in Africa with a population of over one million people (estimates range widely). The name "Kibera" is derived from kibra, a Nubian word meaning "forest" or "jungle." (1) Although over a million people live there the government recognise it officially as as a "squat" or illegally occupied land, this allows them to basically do nothing for the inhabitants.

There are 3 public schools, no running water, no running electricity, 5 toilets and 5 water pumps which both have to payed for. As a result there is huge illeteracy and education problems, crime is seen as the only way to survive. Due to the lack of toilets, people shit in plastic bags which are then flung onto the terribe smelling pile of previous peoples work; this is known as the flying toilet. Needless to say rivers of shit and piss and who knows what else flow from these piles of waste, these rivers run into the nearby river causing massive pollution. Despite this locals still wash, drink and take fish from this river to eat. There are widespread disease epidemics, along with Aids and the other usual diseases. People from rural Kenya still come to Kibera to live, believing like so many others around the world that the city will give them the chance in life to make it, to own the big house and the big car and all the rest that "they have in the west". Landlord exploitation and lack of basic law means profits and no justice in court should there be any issues of land use or ownership, oddly enough, although officially the government sees Kibera as an illegal settlement, many of its ministers are getting rich as they are the landlords in question. (2)

from the Niger delta to Nairobi

As you probably know there are participants from all around the world at the Global greens conference, some of them from Nigeria. We were discussing today about the niger delta and the necessity of linking among organisations.... the conference was quite interesting today.
We listened to Ann Luehrmann, the youngest member of the Parliament in the world... She was elected to the German Parliament with the age of 19....


I made some remarks about the importance of think globally act locally...and made good comments about the people who spend their time going around conferences , they call them " conference hopers" hoping to attend a conference, but in reality doing very little at local level...
there were many country presentations today... we had some discussions about the role of the GYG and the future. It is quite hot, but very enjoyable...

I am helping quite a lot with the program of the conference. I have the idea of having an special form for TAKING Minutes, which work quite well.


I will continue with the stories hopefully tomorrow... It is interesting to be able to exchange experiences from green people from all around the world...

I will deliver two workshops on Thursday, one on fairtrade and the other on interview skills...

I am doing some recording. I have a very good interview with one of the representatives of the Philipines Green Party, which is called Partido..He explain about the importance of having links to the local communities, about the difference of being an environmentalist or being green...

I am having a chat with Murtala, from the Nigerial Young greens... green activist and campaigner as well involved in gender and education development issues.

the discussion in the afternoon went quite well..

from Nairobi, Kenya

noticias en castellano...

Hola a todos....

Para aquellos que estan leyendo en castellano no he tenido la oportunidad de traducir todavia los dos ultimos blogs, pero prometo hacerlo pronto.
desde Nairobi

arrival at Camp and USI University, venue of the GYG

Just for readers to have an update... The World Social forum is taking place from the 20th to the 25th. The Global Young Greens is starting today and finishing on the 19th....

Global Young Greens Funding congress

I finally arrived to the M.F Hostel, where the youth camp is taking place.
I am sharing the tent with 2 South Korean girls and a German/Kenyan girl...

The Youth camp is very nice. I was in charge of registration...of the participants together with Hanna and Clare both from Tasmania, an Island on the South east coast of Australia
we registered participants from all around the world, mainly representatives from Africa and Asia, including Nigeria, Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Senegal, Benin, Sri Lanka, India, Philipines, Japan, Bangladesh Vietnam.. european representatives including France, Finland, Germany, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Portugal... there is only one representative from latin America for the moment, who is from Argentina...


I was so happy to meet some of the Kenyan women, belonging to the Green Belt movement, Prof Wagari Maathai( Nobel Peace Price) is the founder of that movement...
It seems that one of the participants from Mali is still looking for the clearance of his passport, really immigration procedures here can be a nightmare...

Yesterday myself and other people in charge of organisation wen to USI, University in Nairobi where the global green congress is taking place. I am currently down there...

It is amazing to realise that some many australians are helping to make the Global young greens possible...

until the next one... greetings from Kenya

I have to go back to continue helping...

Jambo, jambo!!!

Hello again from Nairobi.
Since the last time I wrote in the blog really interesting things happened...

On Sunday night I stayed at the Backpackers hostel and I received the visit of some of the organisers of the World social forum in charge of the Cultural committee, the opening and closing ceremony. We discussed about very interesting issues not only music, as well about the current political situation, campaigning activities. It was a coincidence that some of their friends travelled to Porto Alegre ( Brazil) on the same plane in 2004. I knew that the Social Forum is strong in Kenya, specially in the east coast near Mombassa...

On Monday morning I left the Backpackers hostel, and I went briefly to the WSF venue at the Sports stadium. Same place I visited on Sunday. I met an Irish woman in charge of the Interpreters, mainly Kenyan. I had a chat with two Kenyan girls who are fluent in Spanish. One of them was living in Barcelona. The Irish woman was in charge of training Interpreters in Simulatenous translation. I have a better idea now of what the WSF is going to be about...This time Babel interpreters are not in charge, instead a local committee from Kenya, Denmark and Germany are in charge of translation/interpreting for a conference of more than 100.000 participants... I read that Winnie Mandela is going to attend as well as Desmond Tutu from South Africa and 6 Brazilian Ministers....

I confirmed by assistance to the interpreters meeting on Friday. It was really a nice experience to have the opportunity to participate for a while at the training...

Interpreting in Ireland is a different experience as the one from here...

more to continue

visit to the Sports stadium-World Social Forum venue Kasarani outside Nairobi

Estimados lectores,

mi primer dia en Kenya ha sido alucinante hasta ahora.
He conocido a nueva gente tanto de Kenya como de otros paises y he podido conocer un poquito, algo asi como saborear, un pais, del que hacía tiempo habia soñado de visitar.

Como escribí en el blog anterior recibí ayer un email del coordinador de voluntarios del Forum Social Mundial invitándome a participar de un día de entrenamiento antes del Forum. Para aquellos que no saben mucho sobre el Forum Social Mundial, éste es un encuentro mundial de comunidades de base, activistas, grupos de locales que buscan cambiar las políticas en el area social, de medio ambiente y en otras áreas desafiando las políticas neoliberales, buscando alternativas sostenibles y en general buscando que se oigan las voces de los pueblos del Sur.

Éste va a ser el tercer forum social mundial en el que estoy participando después de haber participado en Porto Alegre en el 2003 y en el 2005.
El Forum Social mundial ha sido descrito como un encuentro de la ciudadanía global y el principal lema ha sido "Otro mundo es posible".

El tiempo hoy ha sido muy caluroso, más de 25 grados y no ha llovido. He encontrado con algunos de los voluntarios, tales como Marie de Montreal, Andrew ( productor de cine que vive en Brighton), Mijail ( estudiante boliviano que pertenece a Pachamama, un grupo ecologista con sede en Cochabamba), Emanuelle ( de la Universidad de Turin, realizando un estudio sobre temas de género y participación de las mujeres a nivel local, Amy de Nueva York ( que trabaja en temsa de agricultura orgánica y plantando árboles y Sihnae de Korea del Sur.


Todos los arriba descrito nos encontramos esperando al coordinador de Kenya y finalmente nos llevaron al Estadio de Deportes de Nairobi donde va a realizarse el Forum Social Mundial. Esperan más de 100.000 participantes. Estaré de voluntaria en el área de intérprete y traducción.

Encontré tambien un grupo de voluntarios africanos de países como Uganda, Kenya e Costa de Marfil.

Nos dieron una vuelta por el estadio. Los voluntarios locales recibiran un total de 500 shilling diarios, que son como 10 Euros.

Ya de vuelta a la ciudad regresamos en un transporte local llamado "matato" que me recordaba mucho a las camionetas de Guatemala solamente que no van tan rápido.

Hasta ahora en general la gente ha sido de lo más amable y servicial

De cualquier manera continuando...
a la vuelta de la visita al estadio de Deportes vimos pasar una camioneta con gente de la India, con un lema algo así como acabar con el analfabetismo, educación para todos.

Recordar que mañana me mudaré de donde estoy ahora en el Backpackers hostel a el MF Hostel, un campamento donde va a tener lugar el
Global Young greens, encuentro de Verdes Globales.

El Forum Social mundial así como el Encuentro de los verdes globales han sido las principales motivaciones para venir a Kenya en Enero del 2007.

Más información sobre el forum

www.wsf2007.org

Algunas fotos del estadio de deportes

www.stadiumskenya.co.ke

así como del proyecto

www.globalyounggreens.org

Jóvenes Verdes Mundiales

Hasta la próxima...
agur
Dear readers,

my real first day in Kenya has been amazing so far.
I met lots of new people Kenyan and from other countries and I had the taste of a country I was dreaming to visit for long time....

As I wrote in my previous log I received an email from the World Social forum volunteering coordinator yesterday inviting me to attend a volunteer training type of preparation for the world social forum. For the ones who don't know about it the World Social Forum is one of the biggest global gathering of grassroots organisation, NGO's, activist and local groups looking to change social, environmental and other current policies challenging neoliberalism, looking for sustainable alternatives and in general claiming to listen to the voice from the People from the South. This is the third World Social Forum I am attending so far, after the WSF in 2003 and 2005 both in Porto Alegre. The World Social Forum has been described as a "Global Civil Society gathering". The main slogan has been so far "Another world is possible"


The weather today was very hot, more 25 degrees and It did not rain so far.
I met some of the volunteers, Marie from Montreal, Andrew ( film maker living in Brighton) Mijail ( from an Ecological group in Cochabamba), Emmanuelle from the University of Torino in Italy making research on gender issues and women participation at local level, Amy from New York( involved in organic farming and tree planting and Sihnae from South Korea involved an environmental NGO organisation.

All of us were waiting for the Kenyan coordinators and finally got a lift to the Sports stadium where the World Social Forum will be taking place from the 20th to the 25th...

The organisers are expecting more than 100.000 participants from around the world.I will be in the interpreting/translation team working volunteering mainly through simultaneous interpreting...

I met some of the local volunteers involved in the Media and newsletter as well as some other African volunteers from Uganda, Tanzania and Yvory Coast.

We had a look at the Youth Camp and walk around everywhere.
Kenyan volunteers will get an allowance of 500 shillings, approximately 10 euros per day to cover transport and food.

There will be different areas for volunteering such as welcoming "ashas", logistics, security, recording and documenting the workshop, special needs and obviously information desk. The weather is currently very warm, comparing to the weather in Ireland a real change.

We make our way back into town with a "matato" local small van, similar to the ones in Guatemala, but driving not as fast.

For the opening of the WSF there is going to be a procession from Kibera, the biggest "asentamiento" or shanty town in the region. They don't like to call it like this. It seems that some caravans from Uganda, and Tanzania will join the procession. At the opening open to everybody will participate more than 500.000 people.


So far I enjoy Nairobi very much. People are very friendly, interesting in knowing where I live, and in general very polite.

When we were travelling in the masaton van, we saw a group of people from India who were in a car, having a type of fundraising celebration... "to finish with the iliteracy rate"said the slogan...

Everywhere you go there are many people offering and giving you leaflefts about safaries.

So far I am planning to visit the Nairobi National park as well the Karen Blixen Museum, named after the heroine of Out of Africa.
Memorias de Africa.
More information about the World Social Forum

www.wsf2007.org

www.traveldiscoverkenya.com

Tomorrow I will be moving out from the Backpackers Hostel and I will go to the M.F Hostel to stay at the youth camp of the Global Young Greens.

www.globalyounggreens.org

The participation at the Global young greens gathering as well as at the world social forum, has been the main motivation to come to Kenya in January 2007.

I will presenting some workshops on the issues of Fair trade and interview skills next Thursday... until the next blog goodbye...

in Nairobi/estoy en Nairobi Karibu-in Swahili

Hola a todos, hello everybody, Jambo !


Finally after being travelling since 7am ( the time I left Dublin this morning) I arrived in Nairobi.

I am currrently staying at the Nairobi Backpacker hostel.
It looks like a lodge. There are individual rooms as well as dormitories and some people are sleeping in tents located in the garden.

Just in connection to the trip today, I had the opportunity to meet a group of canadians in Heathrow today, who are going to film a documentary on Development issues in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. www.revised.tv

On the plane near me there was a friendly Kenyan woman who is working for the environmental NGO called WWF. She was travelling for more than a day as she left Washington yesterday. She gave me some advice and recommendations in connection to the stay in Kenya.

Once I arrived at the International airport in Nairobi I paid the 50USD visa fee and I went out to look for Peter, a Kenyan working at the Backpacker hostel who brought me back to the Hostel. Just to comment that there is a prayer room at the airport, just like a #mezquita#.
When I leave the airport it was rainining a lot.... I thought that it was the rainy season, but it seems that this is not the case. I was told that it was today the only day of the week with rain...Peter explained that the streets in Nairobi after 9pm are just empty...

The people at the hostel welcomed me, very friendly. Tomorrow it will be a long day as I have to meet some of the other volunteers from the World Social Forum 2007

www.wsf2997.org

Bye now

It is very warm, at around 19 degrees.

Just read a nice note in the hostel


HAS AFRICA GIVEN YOU SOMETHING?

GiVE SOMETHING BACK

# we are collection some items to donate for a local project...


Finalmente despues de estar viajando desde las 7am ( hora que sali de Dublin esta manana) acabe de llegar a Nairobi. En estos momentos me encuentro hospedada en un hostel international.
www.nairobibackpackers.com
Parece como una cabana, hay cuartos individuales y dormitorios y tambien tiendas fuera en el jardin.

Volviendo al tema del viaje, hoy en Heathrow tuve la oportunidad de encontrarme con un grupo de canadienses que vienen a rodar un documental sobre temas de Desarrollo en Uganda. Tanzania y Kenya. www.revised.tv

Ya en el avion se sento a mi lado una chica muy simpatica de Kenya que trabaja para la organizacion WWF de Medio Ambiente. Llevaba mas de 1 dia viaje, ya que salio ayer desde Washington. Me dio algunos consejos y recomendaciones para la estancia en Kenya.

Ya habiendo llegado al aeropuerto Internacional Jomo Kenyatta pague la visa de 50 USD y fui a buscar a Peter, un chico de Nairobi que trabaja en el hostel que me estaba esperando para llevarme al Backpackers hostel. Hay una sala de oraciones, algo asi como una mezquita en el aeropuerto. Al salir del aeropuerto llovia a cantaros, imagine que estuvieramos en la epoca de lluvias. Pero no era el caso. Parece ser que hoy fue el unico dia que llovio esta semana. Me comenta que a partir de las 9pm Nairobi las calles de Nairobi estan desiertas...

Al llegar al hostel me encuentro con gente muy agradable
y receptiva.Manana me espera un dia largo. Tendre que ir a un encuentro con otros voluntarios del forum Social mundial. www.wsf2007.org y encontrare con otros de los participantes.

Hace bastante calor, unos 19 grados.

Acabo de leer un letrero en el Hostel

TE HA DADO ALGO AFRICA?
PUES ENTONCES PON ALGO DE Tu parte

para donar a un proyecto local

Kwaheri _Goodbye -Adios

a week to go to Kenya/Una semana para viajar a Kenya

Dear readers, estimados lectores

Greetings from Dublin.
Saludos desde Dublin.


There is less than a week left to travel to Kenya and I am starting to prepare everything for the travel.
Queda menos de una semana para el viaje a Kenya y estoy comenzando a preparar todo para el viaje.

For the first few days I will stay at the International Backpackers in Nairobi and later I will move for the next two weeks at the organised Campsite near the Sports stadium.

Durante los primeros dos dias estaré en el albergue internacional en Nairobi y por las próximas dos semanas en el campamento organizado cerca del estadio de deportes.

until then bye for now

hasta entonces me despido por ahora

desde Dublin/from Dublin