I leave in 12 days and there is so much left to do. I need to move out of my apartment, finish class projects, finals, pack, figure out how to get bills paid while I'm gone, and teach my mother how to care for my carnivorous plants. It is going to be a lot of work, but it will all get done somehow.
The book I have chosen to read in conjunction with this trip is "I Laugh So I Won't Cry: Kenya's Women Tell The Story Of Their Lives" by Helena Halperin. In this book, the author has interviewed women from different tribal backgrounds, levels of education (or lack of), and economic levels to get a perspective on many different aspects of the lives of women in Kenya. I decided that since I was focusing a major part of my trip on women, it was only fitting that my literature selection reflect that as well. I have flipped through it a bit and it looks really interesting, but I haven't had time to really sit down and start reading yet.
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