Kenya Update No. 5

Here is another update from Leona.

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On Monday we drove to Garissa. That was so interesting. Here in Nairobi it has been warm for a couple of hours during lunch time but otherwise kind of cool, but still nice. When we drove to Garissa you could really feel the weather change. It was so hot and sticky when we got there and it is only five hours of Kenyan road (which is full of pot holes sometimes and therefore a slower drive). It really felt that we were driving into the desert. Nairobi is very green and as we got farther away the landscape became very sandy. Closer to Garissa we saw many dried-out rivers, Camel herds, and just incredible poverty. The conditions that people lived under are hard to describe. We saw many little huts (if you can even call them that) that were made out of sticks. And another thing that I found so interesting was that we were driving throught the desert and there were people walking along the road, I could not figure out what they were doing there. We could see for miles and there were no houses or anything in sight. And it was not only a few people. It was just so interesting and shocking. We were only in Garissa for one evening and one morning and we saw some things there, but I thought that the drive was the most interesting part.