We arrived in Kenya at the olkoroi camp after a entire night of pushing 4x4 taxis through mud and over hils. The meaning of Olkoroi is Colobus monkey in the Kimasai Language. The camp got its name because it's located next to a river and the monkeys are commonly seen from the camp's viewpoint. After about a week the leaders decided to do a split sothat the guys can go for a hike into the forest, and the ladys can have some bonding time aswell. We set of with our small bags with only one pair of clothes and...
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Turkey! Haha no, not the flightless bird, the country of course. It has the most beautiful landscapes, delightful food and rich history. We (as the 10 guys) spent some weeks on a olive farm in Urla, Turkey, where we would have early mornings milking the sheep, fetching the eggs from the chicken coop and preparing breakfast which would normally be bread that we baked ourselves and some kind of spread like Nutella or a variety of jams. Then we would start the day of by going to the "clay pit" where we would mix clay, sand and hay into water...
Hello, Welcome to my blog! I'm not sure what I'm doing here yet, but im doing it. This blogging thing is new to me. I want to keep the theme of my blogs about experiences even if it's more personal, but it would be better if you could learn something out of it. First of all during training we haven't had a place to call home, the longest time we spent at the same place was 5 days. So we got pretty comfortable with being uncomfortable. My experiance during training has been challenging me emotionally, physically and spiritually. I've been...
As a team we are all starting to realize that we are moving towards the end of our 1 year journey. Rice has become our comfort food and we can probably write a book on all the jokes we made about it. The idea of any ending makes me feel sad, but where there is a beginning there is obviously an ending. It's a repeating cycle we constantly face and we always make such a big deal about it! What I have realized is that the closer you get to the end, any ending, the more you would want it...
