In just under two days, Quester and 5pm service attender Linda Szeto will be heading to Kenya. She will be working in her official capacity as a speech and language pathologist, and checking in with folks she has been in contact with since her last trip to Kenya. Take a look at Linda's blog, and check back for updates here: http://www.neuroplastictravel.blogspot.com/
Here's Linda in her own words:
Last year, students from Pirrar Secondary School for Girls in the Transmara District recited
this poem for me among many other "dramas" and performances. These
girls, whose parents pay high prices for their secondary education
(i.e., equivalent to high school) sleep in the room next to the
classroom. Their outpouring of enthusiasm for education in the midst of
having nothing that we privileged Westerners have (like electricity,
clean water, toilets, sealed windows, adequate textbooks, air
conditioning) was enough to bring me to tears. They marveled not only
at my camera, but also at the scent of my moisturizer, the
spiral-binding of my notebook, the color of my US dollar bill, the
texture of my chap stick.
I couldn't fathom how spoiled we are. I couldn't take it. I cried that night.
