Noontoto

small picture of the primary school where I'll be doing my field study.

Fieldstudy prep.

If I haven't already mentioned it, here it comes again!

My first 4-5 weeks in Kenya I'll be doing a fieldstudy at Nontoto primary school in the village Enkokidongoi. My field of interest is equality between boys and girls in school and how their lives are being shaped after this. At the moment I have printed 90 surveys and I'm pretty much done with the interview questions, just need to wait for my study partners, Emma and Andreas to finish theirs. After that we need to structure our plan and then we're pretty much set to go :D



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Getting closer to Departure

Today it's 13 days left till my big Adventure starts in Africa. First Kenya then Zanzibar, Tanzania. Am I excited? - Hell yeah!!! Am I going to miss You? - SOOOO much Babe, but the next trip we'll do together :)

YAY!

Forgot to mention it earlier - but I passed my exam! Hurray for me :D

New course literature

Book ordered today.

Live from Pauline's nest

Stress

Working my butt off trying to complete the exam in Global Studies. Wish me luck!

Exam

Today we had our last class with our professor Ronald Stade from Malmo Uni. He handed out the exam in Global Studies that we have 2 weeks to complete. Better get started asap!

Global Studies

Bits and bobs of today's instructive lecture. Topics:
- World system.
- Core, Semi-periphery and periphery countries.
- Fernand Braudel, French historian (1902-1985).
- Capitalism.

Twiga

Through the Swedish non-profit and non-governmental organization, Twiga you can read more about the Malaria group and their project (see link below). As I mentioned earlier they sell beautiful jewleries made by Masaai women and every penny they get in is worth a lot!
You can also join Twiga and pay a member's fee to support their work.

http://www.twiga.se/en

http://www.twiga.se/sv/nyheter/146/rapport-fran-malariagruppen

Svalorna

Svalorna is an organization that came and spoke to us yesterday. They work mainly in India and Bangladesh with minority groups. Check out their website and see what you can do to support their work!

http://svalorna.org/

Maasai

Today a former student came and spoke to us about the Masaai culture - it was really interesting to hear about her 6 months in Maasai land and what her experience was.

Also another girl who had studied here before came and spoke about her Malaria project and the Masaai jewleries they sell to make this project grow and develop.

After this valuable day I have lots of new ideas in my mind about what I'm going to do when I get down there...

Check this link out for more info on the Malaria project:
://www.twiga.se/sv/nyheter/146/maasaismycken-blir-projektstod