Thursday, March 22, 2012

Expedition Preparation

I’m getting along with Kenya just fine. Between the food and the amazing view I’m pretty happy with this camp. Yesterday we had a traveling lecture to a hill where we had a great view of the mountain. Then we had 4 hours of Economic Policy which was quite awful. Today we had another traveling lecture where we went to a bunch a different sites to have lecture. One site there were monkeys sitting right above our heads in the trees so it was kind of hard to concentrate. Then we went over all the rules for expedition tomorrow. We are going to Lake Karuku and it is about a 10 hour drive.  We are going to get to see a bunch of rhinos and hopefully some more leopards.
This morning I was woken up by baboons “barking” at each other. They were so loud and I don’t know what happened, but every time they would calm down the birds would start to egg them on again so it probably went on for about 5 minutes. There is a ton of wild life on this camp but luckily I haven’t had anymore run ins with baboons on my runs again. 
It is definitely a lot hotter here than it is in Tanzania, but they say that it gets very cold at night while camping. We aren’t staying in tents this times, we are in a dorm situation because everyone was so cold last time. Also we can’t eat outside because the baboons are crazy and they will come up and snatch food right out of your hands. The rest of the day will be spent packing and preparing and then we are leaving at 6 tomorrow morning to head to the park!

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