I have been traversing national borders again

Back in Kenya. My program ended in Rwanda and I must admit I was on the first bus out. The country is beautiful but very intense, like most beauty. I don't know how to summarize the experience there because I am still processing. It will take it's own time.

Thank you for reading.

I feel like I am starting all over again. I have one month left on my trip and needless to say, I am exhausted from going full force since last semester in January. I am taking my rest and I have the opportunity to still learn all around me in the new environments I find everywhere here.

Lately Kenya had been immersed in debates on how to deal with the post-election violence of 2007. Where around 2,000 people lost their lives after results were shown to have reelected the previous President. Just now the country is deciding whether to prosecute internationally the instigators of violence or to have truth and justice commissions, who take a non-punitive approach to justice and reconciliation. These issues are very close to the things I have been studying and writing about all summer. Everyday I read the paper full of conflicting opinions about moving forward after large scale violence. Moving forward objectively and subjectively.

Hard questions and I flip-flop between the different approaches often. But moreso I ponder whether we can ever have a clear notion of what justice ever really is.

But I wanted to write you about the camle I saw last night!
It was amazing. I am currently with my friend from Lamu (the island I wrote about) in his Gikuyu village visiting his mother while we both take well deserved breaks from school and work.
So last night we were in a restaurant and I went downstairs to find Murrey's mother and there was a huge camel chillin' in the streets of Nyeri, where we are!

I am writing about it because I was seriously enraptured. And my reaction and experience with it makes me smile. I love life stuff like that. I just wondered up to it and started petting it. His owner was very nice and gave me four mangoes to feed it. It was amazing. That camel, I don't know if they all are, was seriously a zen creature. He was just being. I'm serious!! Anyway it was awesome, and I eventually found Murrey's mom who is amazing and cute and watches WWF saying "Owwwww" and "powwww" all the time. It is like I have stepped into a comic book, that has really good food.

So rest assured I have been sucessful in my studies and programs here. And more importantly I have had experiences that are lifechanging and made connections with people that are extremely special, from me to them and them to me.

But the blogs aren't stopping!

I have one more month here, and there is so much I am inspired to write about. More pictures to come too. Murrey and I will be traveling across Kenya again back to his island town of Lamu where I will be practicing my Swahili.
More to come.
Love,
Chelsea