Occasional Notes

The presentation that caused me such angst this weekend is done and went well. I was told, in confidence, by one of my classmates that the leadership in the group (being me) was very evident to everyone watching the presentation, which almost maks up for all the fighting I had to do over it.

In other news, we gave a presentation tonight to the university community on the experience of going to Kenya. There was a little movie that one of our number made, followed by a series of speakers addressing the major issues that arose while a series of pictures flashed behind. Myself and another girl talked about the drought and the impact of the drought on education. It went really well. I'm really happy with my contribution, which is a good feeling.

This brings me to another point of order. I have been working on a website of my Kenya pictures. Right now it consists of my pictures and those of a couple of other people on the trip, each with a caption, which must be gone through in sequential order due to the structure of the site itself. I am hoping to get an alternative browsing mechanism in place (namely, linking pictures to a calendar so that you can go to a specific day's images if you so desire). I also just got two DVDs with the pictures and videos of everyone on the trip and hope to get a bunch more pictures from there to put up, as well.

So, the question becomes do I:

a) upload what I have now and add the other elements as I finish them, or
b) wait another week or two until I can upload a completely finished site?

Please advise.

As well, many, many thanks to ink_stain who has kindly offered to host my web gallery at walkunafraid.org!

It is 4:00am, I am awake and I have a jetlag hangover. Why is the aftermath of travel so unpleasant? I am continuing to unpack and put away today, but do not want to start doing so at this obscene hour of the morning on a Saturday.

This is mcee broadcasting from Lauren's journal to tell you that she emailed yesterday from an internet cafe in Nairobi saying that she has arrived safe and sound.

Tell everyone I say hi and that Kenya is fantastic and that Free the Children is amazing and deserves all the support it can get.

So there you have it. Our Intrepid Teacher is alive and well and as chipper as ever. Hoorah!

I am leaving for Kenya TOMORROW. Our dogs are in the kennel, our cats are all set up, I'm all packed, and I'm TOO EXCITED TO SLEEP!

lazlet -- my present arrived yesterday! Thank you so much! I love it to pieces. I wore it all around the house today as I was packing and getting ready. It is beautiful and so warm!

kx and the_oscar_cat -- the glasses arrived a few days ago, as well! They survived the trip in perfect condition. They are currently packed carefully away with all the other glasses. I promise to send pictures and a note when I get back to let you know approximately what happens to them! Thank you very much for sending them, I really appreciate it!

My life lately is quite busy. Also odd. Example, this week.

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All very exciting.


omg.

So, weird day.

Started with me getting rear-ended on my way to school (am fine, if a little sore) and progressed through to my finding out for sure that I will be going to Kenya for my second practice teaching placement (in February).

Am exhausted. And sore. And super excited about Kenya. And sore. And shakey. And things.

I think bed now yes.