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Oh the Americans are here. Make spaghetti.

Tuesday and Wednesday passed quickly and easily as we now all adjusted to Kenya time (Goodbye jet lag!) and were back to our Joytown research routine. We knew what had to get done and the time we had to do it in.  SACDEP welcomed us back with a Tuesday meal including "American food" aka spaghetti noodles. Just noodles. Haha Thanks, Kenya.

We continued our wheelchair research at Joytown Primary School and got to return to the Secondary School (Kenyan High School equivalent) for a second survey time with the students. I realized through this survey that although we are very different, Kenyans and Americans, much is the same. High school students are high school students. They are teenagers. Some with attitudes, most with dreams, and all of them with lives that are just as real and crazy to understand as my own. *Philosophical vent over* Once our survey work was finished, Danielle decided to jump in and join a group of Secondary girls rehearsing songs for an upcoming talent show. They're probably glad we left… ;)

Wednesday rounded out our last full day of 2015 research!  The day was more relaxed as we finished necessary research tasks (tracking down wheelchairs, confirming names and diagnoses of subjects, ect) and put everything into giant spreadsheets (I'm basically an Excel master. Thanks, Wheels). Oh, and lots more wheelchair assembly. Phew.


I ended my night in the SACDEP office but this time rather than catching some wi-fi and finishing the day's work, I had a long conversation with Joseph the front-desk/guest-relations guy about future planning and the crazy path that life takes you on. It was really neat. A conversation that was just as though provoking as it sounds and highlighted by the fact that we are two people that never expected to meet again after my first (and foreseeably, only) time  in Kenya with Wheels 2013. Conclusion: Life keeps you guessing. Sometimes you really enjoy it and sometimes you just have to be okay with the ride.

Yuh. We made those.

Our wonderful team (workin' hard...)

Working oh so hard...
Selfie with some Joytown kids


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