Getting Ready for Kenya

My first big journey is to Kenya!

Elizabeth (Liz as she is usually called) has gone out to Nairobi already. She is attending a summer school at the University and on Tuesday morning is giving a presentation on: "Isotopes in biogenic silica: methodology and applications". This is part of her PhD work where she is looking at a core from Lake Challa and seeing what it can tell us about how the lake and its environment has changed over thousands of years. On Wednesday, she travels to Lake Challa which is near Mount Kilimanjaro. She will collect samples which will help her work when she gets back to Lancaster.

We heard yesterday that she got there safely and today she met up with someone else attending the summer school and had a look round Nairobi.

Kathryn and I go out to Nairobi on Friday 24th. We will arrive on Saturday meet up with a new deacon Anselme and Pamela and Margaret who are also from England. On Sunday, we plan to go to the Maasai Mara to see the animals there! After that - we hope to get to Mount Kenya and to the coast...

When we can, we will upload photos here - and are investigating a site that puts them on a map so you can see where they were taken. More news on that if we get it to work!