tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57042607524352003582024-03-13T22:04:28.970+03:00et ceterakoly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-52799964432933675842014-02-05T01:22:00.000+03:002014-02-05T01:22:43.992+03:00beautiful people // lisa johnson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This semester I am taking my first studio photography class and it's a little bit terrifying. Partly because I have next to no experience with it and partly because if I trip onto a piece of equipment it will likely cost me thousands of dollars. Here's to student loan! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My first project of the semester was to emulate a famous photographer. Richard Avedon</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-- famous for his series entitled "The American West" and his fashion photography--</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> inspired this project. Last weekend my friend Lisa and I took an evening off of partying to create something beautiful. Lisa is an inspiration to me in her passion for her practice. She is an incredible dancer and has an incredibly passionate heart. She works with a ministry in the area working to end human trafficking, works at a local thrift store, teaches dance classes, and still finds time to connect with friends. Her pint sized body contains a bold spirit rivaled by few. </span></div>
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koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-13934367422563713582014-01-06T04:19:00.001+03:002014-01-06T04:19:38.364+03:002 0 1 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HAPPY. THANK YOU. MORE, PLEASE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I spent a majority of the year away from home, out of my comfort zone, and pursuing adventure. On January 24 I set out on the adventure of a lifetime-- a semester in Kenya. That semester led to the best friendships, the worst sicknesses, and a grand eye opening on how the world is outside of the states. I traveled to the far reaches of Kenya (the Kaisut Desert, Amboselli, Maasai Mara, Nairobi, Kibera, Mt. Kenya), the capitol of Ethiopia and the African Union, and the sunny island of Zanzibar armed with a backpack, a camera, and a moleskine. Africa taught me that life is best lived together. She also taught me that time isn't always of the essence, most of the time people are. Respect people and their humanity, respect the earth and it's providence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I then spent another four months in St. Mary, Montana. This summer I fell in love and climbed a few mountains and spent too few nights in a tent. I learned better how to live in community and how to cook. Two incredibly valuable life skills. This summer also broke wind to incredible, deep heartache. The Cafe was taken back by its original owners and though the legacy of Neal and Kathryn and Rob and Terry and Aimee will live on, the pulsating life of the Cafe under their management will no longer live in St. Mary. Without your love and spirit and big hearts, I would not be the person I am today and I know many would echo my claim. We also lost a loved one, out boss Rob, this November and my heart broke again, this time harder. Rob lived with pure intentions and though he comes off as a grizzly bear, he's really just a teddy bear. His sense of humor sent me over the edge and he will live on forever in endless stories and goofy memories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">September sent me home, back to Grand Rapids, back to unemployment, and back to Cornerstone. I moved into a house with my travel companion, Kaitlan Spencer, a good friend, Victoria Rosales, a stranger, Kenny Selby, and our 4 cats. After a month of searching for a job and annoying the manager at the Electric Cheetah, I scored a cooking job at Uncle Cheetah's Soup shop. I am so blessed to work in place with such snarky, positive energy. And the free soup doesn't hurt. I finished the year with straight B's at Cornerstone, took a few classes that I loved and a couple of boring core requirements and I still have 4 chapel papers to write. I made new friends and re-found friendship with old friends. This fall I drove around the Midwest a bit and rediscovered the love I have for the place I grew up. I also spent a bit of time falling in love with Game of Thrones. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">All this to be said. Cheers to a year of growing pains and happiness. And cheers to this coming year, destine to be fuller than the last. </span></div>
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koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-39903033597397496322013-10-28T18:38:00.004+03:002013-10-28T18:38:57.540+03:00stacy & michele<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Last weekend I headed to Milwaukee to take pictures of my aunts Stacy and Michele. After 6 hours in the car (2 of which spent in downtown Chicago traffic) and 2 pit stops, I made it to their home in Whitefish Bay. It was my first time in Milwaukee and I loved it. For our photo shoot we drove a mile to the beach and adventured down the coastline. It was awesome to see my aunts outside of the chaos of the holidays. We got to spend real time together. This year they've been together seven years so they figured it was about time to get a few photographs for their house. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"What kind of gay couple would we be if we didn't get a picture with our dog?"</span><br />
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koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-1147984128262038672013-10-27T11:00:00.000+03:002013-10-27T11:00:02.043+03:00amplified stillness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Name five things you are grateful for, go! go! go!" is the new daily conversation/text message my housemate Victoria shouts at me. A week ago I watched a video on how expressing your gratitude increases your happiness and we'be been putting it into practice. It's awkward sometimes, but it's refreshing. It's jumping into a calm lake in the heat of summer. It makes your heart a little fuller. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Today I am thankful for the weekend I spent adventuring around norther Michigan with Victoria. We spent time listening to Arcade Fire, reading Buddy Wakefield poems aloud, reflecting on our choices, praying for each other, and cuddling to keep warm in our tent. I am thankful for my great aunt and for sharing her stories with us Monday afternoon on her farm. I am thankful for Abi the goat who thinks she's a dog. I am thankful for slowing down. For taking time to reflect. For places where the internet is banished from and the mantra "Be Here Now." </span><br />
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koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-51463902525588151862013-10-25T22:27:00.000+03:002013-10-25T22:27:11.551+03:00mountains beyond mountains // part I<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">some days, most days, i wish that a photograph could properly hold all that a moment is. that i could physically hold all of the emotions i feel when seeing the mountains i called home for the first time upon return. i wish i could collect all the electricity in the moment you see a lover after extended separation. but photographs cannot do that. it cannot encompass the 360, the electricity of touch, the pureness of human breath, the stillness of the sunrise. a photograph can hold some of it, but our memories hold the rest. i so hope that these pictures let you in on a little bit of the majesty i was surrounded by this summer and the love of the community i was surrounded in. </span><div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">here's to another amazing summer in glacier national park & the amazing community at the park cafe. </span></div>
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koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-72749830509302610492013-10-22T00:35:00.000+03:002013-10-22T00:35:09.062+03:00blood and milk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I know this is a little late to be posting, but i'm posting it nonetheless. During my time in Kenya I got to visit the village of Korr for a second time. This trip was for a week instead of the weekend and it was a part of my internship. I created an anthropological piece on the women of Rendille. I learned so much about their culture when I was there a second time and build some beautiful friendships from women in the area. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A few mornings I would wake up at 5:30 and visit the wells with my friend and translator Shammy. By the time I got there the women drawing water from the wells were already heading out. Many of them had to walk 6 km one way to fetch water. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Our time of arrival came during the rainy season and everyone was happy living with the wealth they had. The camels were healed and waaq was happy. I tried candied camel meat for the first time in my life and it was awesome. When they candy the meat it preserves it and has no need to be refrigerated. Convenient when you live in the desert. Because we arrived a day after the rain, my Rendille name became Hiroya Galgidele of Matarbah. My first name means very simply, rain. My last name is that of my guide & friend who speaks 4 sentences of english, Blackie. She decided that I could be a part of her clan. The love the women I worked with shared with me was moving. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My friend Maria, mother of 7, helped me with a photo shoot documenting collecting firewood (now-a-days you have to hike 25km to get enough for a few days so most buy it from a truck at a cost). On the way back my professor took my camera from me and made me carry the wood. Then Maria not only gave me the wood pile off her back, but also all of her beads (a symbol of beauty) and the equivalent of her wedding ring. It is a simple beaded necklace with only red and white beads. They symbolize the blood and milk they mix together at their wedding, because once they have been combined they can never be separated. Another wedding tradition is clipping their toe nails and putting them in a pot that will be hung in the hut, you don't know whoes toe nail belongs to who so you become one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Our nights off, my fellow students, interns, and friends, Max and Tyler and I would hang out together under the Rendille stars. One night we were all really tired and went to bed, I was supposed to get up early to go the the wells but when I got into bed my roommate for the week Shalom (a local & sister-in-law of my professor) came running into out hut shouting "He's here! He's here! The witch doctor is here!" And I hopped out of bed and came to see what the commotion was about. We had heard about this witch doctor the whole week and were waiting for out chance 1. to meet him and 2. drive him out of town. You see, he wasn't persay a witch doctor, but an anti-witch doctor. He claimed that were evil objects in certain areas of the village and dig them up and make the village pay $100 for his service. Another title for his job could be conman. We went along with his bullshit for hours and Shalom and I could barely contain our laughter at how absurd all of his stories were. We then convinced him that our friend Kora was the owner of the land we were on and took him around to show him all of the evil spirits on the property. The last one they went to was obviously put there by the witch doctor himself. All of the paths are lined with white painted rocks and one such rock was sitting in the middle of a path and the witch doctor found a claw under it and to destroy the evil spirit we burnt it on the spot. As the night progressed he figured out we were catching onto his bullshit. The next night at midnight we called a meeting with the elders of the village to have him arrested, but they could not because he was doing nothing illegal. He was just taking advantage of the poor, uneducated population that truly believes in magic spirits. Fortunately, the day after we left he fled town out of fear (we have friends in government). </span></div>
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koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-34608673560714762772013-10-07T00:48:00.002+03:002013-10-07T00:48:44.664+03:00beautiful people // michael swistak<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's hard to believe that my brother is a senior this year and will be moving away to college next. Over two sessions we got to catch up on life and he's the coolest little brother. While I was away, he started playing for the varsity hockey team at school, got a super cool girlfriend, and is trying to win the "prom king" title. Our shoot was really fun and Michael cracked me up on more than one occasion with his poses. Happy senior year little bro!</span></div>
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koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-20315804951418560252013-09-25T19:20:00.000+03:002013-09-25T19:21:21.528+03:00kibera // kenya<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I have been debating on whether or not I should post the photos I took in the slums on the internet or not, and today while I was editing I decided that I'm not going to let this experience sit inside of my computer. It felt all sorts of weird walking through Kibera with a group of 10 wazungu, but I learned some important things that I shouldn't keep to myself when I have a platform to educate on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My friends were filming a documentary on an orphanage outside of Kibera and on of the guys named Philip who they were interviewing took us through the slum. It is right around the block from a couple of the bigger malls in Nairobi. We often shopped in the Toi Market before this trip without even knowing that if you go deep enough you walk into Kibera. Kibera is the second largest slum in Africa, and the largest urban slum. There are roads going up to the edges of the slum, but then you hit a dirt road and piles of trash. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The government ends with the road,"</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> said our guide Philip. The police don't go into Kibera because the people don't want them there; it is run by vigilante justice. During our walk around the slum two policemen who were accepted by the slum escorted us. While we were almost leaving the slum Tyler saw a women selling fish he wanted to film. He went over casually and took a photo and then the body guards freaked out a little bit and made him keep walking. Later we came to find out that behind the woman selling fish was a group of men sitting together with the most wanted criminal in all of Kenya. That is how untouched by federal law the slum is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We got dropped off a school on the other side of the railroad tracks. The first look over the train tracks hit me like a sack of bricks. <i>Kibera goes on forever</i>. At the same time you are whacked with the reality of Kibera, you can see Karen-- the richest part of Nairobi. It hosts home to politicians and powerful people in Kenya. You could also see the hill that we lived on at Daystar University. </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where in the world am I?</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The people in Kibera are forced to live like animals while politicians live like gods." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A six foot by six foot house can hold 12 people. The mud walls fall and crumble, especially during the rainy season. Homes tap electricity illegally and dangerously. We went inside the home of a friend of Philip and she was so honored to host us. I can't properly encompass how happy she was to have us sitting in her house, showing us all of her photos and boasting about her granddaughter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">No one should be forced by birth or circumstance to live in a place like Kibera (especially when so many people living so close are living like kings). Kids born into it need hope. Philip said, "there is no hope in Kibera." I don't know if I agree with this statement. There is a lot of sadness and despair, but it is not without hope. I see the helplessness of the situation, but I also see generations brewing with knowledge that there is a way to do life differently and better. The youth hope for a better future and they don't want to put up with this for much longer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">NOT COOL THINGS ABOUT KIBERA: flying toilets. there is no waste system so people are forced to put their shit in bags then throw them into the street or river. the river that flows through the slum is polluted from this and excessive trash, but the kids still play in it, and they sell fish from down stream. this in turn makes the people sick. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Some days thinking about Kibera makes my heart hurt, but I am also reminded of all of the things blossoming from it and the people who have passion for making it better. Check out<a href="http://www.firstloveinternational.com/" target="_blank"> first love orphanage</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzIgjvUxg5s" target="_blank">the documentary</a> my friends Tyler Minnesma and Max Anderson made. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so i posted a story about a school in Kenya a couple months ago that my friend Hannah Schaap student taught at that is in need of things ranging from soccer balls to new walls. as i'm sitting in the library in Cutbank, MT i thought i could do something more with my summer than hiking and sharing photos of a beautiful part of the country, what if i could count my miles this summer and use them to help Mulandi Primary? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SO i'm asking for you big ole giving hearts to sponsor my trail miles this summer to help build a new classroom for Mulandi School and get them a professional soccer ball. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">whether it's a penny a mile or a dollar, each cent counts. i feel passionate about providing students with a good education because it is a huge step in alleviating poverty. so send an email my way @ kolyswis@gmail.com if you'd like to help build a better future for the students in Athi River.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(<a href="http://www.kolyswistak.com/search/label/Mulandi%20Primary%20School" target="_blank">here's a link to the previous story on mulandi</a>)</span></div>
koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-71693491966372900242013-06-16T00:42:00.001+03:002013-06-16T00:42:02.167+03:00simon & emma<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">During my semester in Kenya I joined my friends Kaitlan and Kyle on their farm adventure, accompanied by my newscaster friend Aubrie. Kaitlan and Kyle had been working at GBIACK for about a month and I was invited to take pictures for their website. GBIACK stands for Grow Bio-Intensive Agriculture Center of Kenya. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">90% of the world's farmers farm on less than 2 acres of land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Grow Bio-Intensive is a 100% sustainable method of farming. Everything used on the farm comes from the farm. Seeds, manure, pest control, you name it. They don't believe in monocrops and their front desk has a "milliones contra monsanta" sticker on it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Their main method they teach farmers is how to grow all of the food 1 person would need for an entire year on an 1/8th of an acre with 10% left for sale if it was their only job. This year they are trying to conduct an experiment where a group of 5 people could farm on 1/8 of an acre and provide all the food they need for a year and be able to hold other jobs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The GBIACK method is inspiring and eye opening. I was so inspired by all of the people I met there and the passion they had for feeding the world and making the world a better place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;">Traveling teaches you what you’re made of. </span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;">No other experience equals its vastness and unknowingness.</span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;">It grinds down your bones and your nerves.</span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;">Traveling across the open country—gps raging against the map and logic, tires going flat, planes arriving late, weather changing rapidly, losing your shit (material and mind).</span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;">Travel challenges your patience, your flexibility, your will to survive.</span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;">It teaches you how to budget.</span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;">Your worldview will die; it forces creativity and imagination to understand the world in light of your new experiences.</span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;">You’re forced to open up, to trust strangers.</span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;">You’re forced to make friends and communicate effectively.</span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;">Travel will show you just how big and beautiful this earth is and how small you are in comparison.</span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 32px; text-indent: 48px;">Most importantly it will show you that you are not alone in your journey, and there are people all over the globe just waiting to be your friend.</span></span><br />
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koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-74780497779335372442013-04-22T20:09:00.000+03:002013-04-22T20:09:51.997+03:00i'm on top of the world<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If I could give any advice about climbing Mt. Kenya it would be : don't climb it during the rainy season. The trip up the mountain could be described as cold, wet, and slightly miserable. Was it worth it? C</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ompletely. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As per African Time we said we were leaving Athi River at noon to start the 6 hour drive to Mt. Kenya and we arrived at camp around 2 am. Around 12:30 am our bus got stuck in the mud and we had to push/pull it out. My friend Agata and I used two 10 foot strips of webbing to pull the bus and thank God no one got run over. </span><br />
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<i>summiting: </i>the original plan for the last day was to wake up at 2 and start climbing at 3 so we could be at the summit for sunrise, but as the rainy theme of the weekend continued, we started when the rains stopped at 5:30. The climb was gorgeous and we could see the first highest peak called Baton the whole way up. It is a technical climb with a 5.12 rating and takes about 2 days longer than the route we took to Lenana, and it looks absolutely terrifying. We summited at 8:20 (beating the British army men who I talked to the day before by about 30 minutes!) and were off the mountain by 9:30. There were beautiful yellow flowers on the snowy summit I forgot to photograph. The same day we summited we also hiked back down to Old Moses camp, making for a 30 km day. My feet felt like they were going to fall off by the time we pitched camp. </div>
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<i>homeward bound: </i>we made it back to base camp around 1:30 and packed up the bus to head back to Nairobi On our way we stopped at chicken in where in the picture below you see they deliver chicken in plastic crates to the restaurant on a boda boda. The whole ride takes about 5 hours and we spent most of it half asleep or singing pop songs at the top of our lungs. And it's not a road trip in Africa unless you buy bananas out the car window.</div>
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a muddy motorbike ride through the small town that cropped up outside of
Daystar University’s Athi River campus to the Daystar Mulandi Primary
School. I arrived with muddied shoes and
high hopes for the day and was greeted by one of the teachers. Only three of the schools’ eight teachers
have arrived from the town of Athi, located a half hour away, whereas most of
the students had already arrived. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Around 8:30 the students lined up in front of the flag
pole to say their morning prayers and hold Bible study. The school hosts grades baby class to grade
8, comparable to the US’s preschool and grades K-8. Teacher Randson introduced me to all 127
students and they greeted me with warm words and big smiles. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> As 9:00 rolled around, head teacher Pauline arrived with
the rest of the staff. Her face was lit
with excitement for her school as she invited me into her office. The office is the size of a small janitorial
closet—two shelves full of textbooks and paperwork hang on the wall next to the
door and a small table covered in a stained white tablecloth stand against the
opposing wall. The walls themselves are
sheets of iron hung with a few encouraging posters and a class list. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> “Our school is two years and three months old,” she tells
me with pride. The need for a school in
Daystar was initiated by Lukenya Pillars of Transformation (LPT), a group of
Daystar students dedicated to helping their community. Before the school was built, children would
walk 14 kilometers through the bush to get to school in the town of Athi. Because they used bush routes, away from the
main road, some students were kidnapped and raped on their walk to and from
school, Pauline says. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> When LPT discovered this, they found a woman called Momma
Mulandi, who provided the school with 1 acre of land to start, and found more
donors to build 3 classrooms. The
classrooms themselves are just skeletons compared to what is found in the
US. Grades 1-8 share a long skinny
building made of 2x4’s and large sheets of metal, like those found in Pauline’s
office. The only difference between the
office and classrooms is the classrooms all have dirt floors. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Pauline is a woman with such pride in her school but the
means for her to make it great just aren’t there. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> “Our school has many challenges,” Pauilne
says. Only six of her eight teachers are
paid for by the government. That means
the parents of the students have to pay for the two teachers not supported by
the government, which many times doesn’t happen because many families that
attend Mulandi School live in poverty. On
top of the poverty that many children find themselves in, Pauline says, “75
percent of my kids are orphans and others have single parents.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The
needs at Mulandi do not stop at the pay for teachers, with a school of 11 grade
levels, they need more. Hannah Schaap, a
student from Trinity Christian College in the Chicago area, completed part of
her student teaching at Mulandi School and her absence is felt harshly. Multiple grade levels now have to share
teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> During the morning assembly, Teacher Randson asked the
students what their school was lacking, a chorus of answered cried back: “Better
classrooms, books, colors, chalk, pens, rubber, sharpeners, bags, footballs,
test books, rulers.” Pauline affirmed
the list the students yelled out and added, “I need classes and text books for
my kids mostly. Water gets into classes
and it distracts the kids and when it gets hot it becomes uncomfortable.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> The preschool section of the school is an actual one room
cement building with real floors and a porch, complete with posters, chalk
boards, and a nap corner, but next to it lays a half-finished building with no
roof. Pauline has to go to
manufacturers and donors to ask them for help to build things for the school
but the money doesn’t always come through.
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“I would like them to
construct classes. The number is growing
big and the classes are too small,” she says.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">For
Purity Muthoni, grade 6, LBT’s gift to the community is greatly appreciated. “It is not far, it is close to my home and I
don’t have to walk a far distance to reach it.”
She is in a class of 11 students, all of whom share 4 workbooks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> As my conversation with Pauline continued in the
afternoon many of her statements ended with, “Another thing which we
need.” Though Mulandi School may lack a
fence, they do not lack in creativity. Kids
use old papers crumpled together to make a soccer ball. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> “Starting a school is no joke,“ Pauline says,
“We just go step by step, step by step.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> On April 3, the students from Mulandi School competed in
districts for athletics and 10 of their students placed first and will travel
onto the next round of competition. The
small school competed against schools of over 800 students and came out
victorious. The students who will be
attending the next round lined up before school and their classmates cheered
them on. Teacher Randson commended the
kids for their encouragement to the athletes. Pauline’s pride for Mulandi
School is contagious with her students. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> “Come back in ten years.
You will not find iron sheets; we will be as rich as Nairobi. Maybe we will even have electricity,” Pauline
boasts with high hopes. But for now,
Pauline is stuck with taking money from her own pocket to pay for exams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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storage before the school day begins.
The office space is one of the few places at the school with cement
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before class starts. With the start of
the rainy season ahead the school looks forward to muddied floors and loud
classes as the iron roof amplifies the rains’ noise</span></span></div>
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placed first in athletic events and will proceed to districts in early April. The school of 100 competed with schools of
almost 1,000 students and triumphed. </span></span></div>
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mandated exams in the schools only cement classroom. Exams in Kenyan education usual consist of
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school of 127 students. More latrines
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badly damaged. This is the only source
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Zanzibar could be described as a perfect paradise, aside from the constant layer of sweat you find yourself in the second you step on the island. A downpour never felt more welcome when it washes away the layer of stick from your skin. Our semester in Kenya program arrived in Zanzibar the first week of March during the recess from school for Kenya's elections, which happened to coincide with the beginning of Zanzibar's rainy season. The first 48 hours on the island we spent at the Tembo Hotel; it was pure magic. The hotel is the former US Embassy and is lavish with Moorish architecture and is conveniently located right on the ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On our bus ride from the airport to Tembo our director Jeff told us that we should spent the next few days wandering the alleyways in Stone Town and getting lost. My first reaction was, "my mother would NOT approve of this" and felt a little strange about wandering foreign alleyways. But the second we hopped off that bus I realized that the roads are alleyways here. When a car or scooter drives through they honk and you betta not be wearing earphones because you have to get your body squeezed against the wall nearest to you or else you'll be run over. My first adventures were with my friend Becca and we wandered forever, got lost, found the best street food in the world, got lost some more, and finally (miraculously) wandered back to Tembo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The last five days of our trip were spent on a part of the island called Paje at the marvelous, beach heaven called New Teddy's Place. When we walked into our dorm hut, complete with sand floors, Kaitlan just about fell over and died of happiness. Our days were spent soaking up the sun and trying to find the drop off in the Indian ocean (which I am pretty sure doesn't exist because I walked a solid hour and a half into the abyss without finding it). We spent our evenings sipping on local specialties, sitting around bonfires, staring at the stars, swinging in hammocks, and floating in the ocean. We spent one afternoon on a spice farm called Hakuna Matata (tourist attraction much?!) and tried all of the spices, drank fresh coconut water, attempted to climb a coconut tree, wore funny hats and enjoyed a cloudy day in the forest. One of the most memorable nights unfortunately did not involve a camera, but a whole lot of dancing and potential for my camera being stolen. Every Friday night in Paje the hotel called Jambo hosts a dance party on the beach near there outdoor bar. The crowd consists of local Zanzibarians (mostly men), lots of European tourists, Maasai warriors in traditional garb, and our group of obnoxious college-aged Americans. I cannot even begin to describe the emotions I felt screaming along to Diamonds by Rihanna with my best friends, barefoot, blissful with a buncha Maasai warriors. </span><br />
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<br />koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-38049187942004139282013-03-21T12:13:00.002+03:002013-03-21T12:16:43.948+03:00beautiful people // hannah schaap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hannah came to Kenya with our big ole study abroad
family to do part of her student teaching.
Hannah has the heart of servant and at the same time the spirit of a
wild horse. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">My first memory of Hannah is her separation from us
on the flight to Istanbul. Since her
departure was scheduled 8 weeks sooner than the rest of us, her ticket was
booked apart from ours. The first half
hour of the flight she was all alone a cabin ahead of us, so when the </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">seat belt</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> light clicked off I went forth to go find her and bring her back to our (soon
to be called) family. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">At that moment I could not have imagined how sad it
would be to send her back. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">On Hannah’s last day teaching at Mulandi Primary
School I was asked to take a few photos of her.
They were taking exams all day, so I stopped by to catch the
end-of-the-day story. Hannah is an
inspiration to watch. Her American
accent is hard for her students to understand, so she has adopted her own
Kenyan accent to teach her class in. I walked in on her reading a book about a
“tigah” not a tiger. She whispered to me
after class how she counts down the minutes until she can speak normally again,
but she does not switch over until after classes are officially done. Her
dedication is something to be admired. </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">After the school day was over, all of the students
gathered to see “Teacha Anna” off. All
of the students affirmed her gift of teaching and, from watching the students’
reactions, she will be sorely missed. </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><br />
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our study abroad family. I could tell ya
stories and stories about how wonderful this gal is. We spend one afternoon in Nairobi’s Toy
Market bartering for used clothes. Our
adventure began with Hannah’s first matatu ride and continued as we flirted our
way into good deals. In Zanzibar we
shared a few adventures, but my personal favorite is her beckoning me to her
second story window and my failed attempt to climb a palm tree to her. As she starts a new adventure after
graduation, I know she’ll do big, bold, amazing things. This summer she’s biking across the States to
find a cure to MS; check out her page at </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"><u>http://www.biketheusforms.org/cyclists/detail.asp?cid=286</u></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> and give her some support!</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-33571812176287591122013-02-28T11:59:00.000+03:002013-02-28T11:59:12.196+03:00pizza and poverty<br />
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stomach wasn’t really having the cheese.
I haven’t had basically any dairy products in the past 4 weeks and I
wasn’t feeling one hundred percent, so I left a half-finished piece of pizza on
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Then my friend Reinmark says to me, “There are hungry kids
out there, you should finish that.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“You know what’s weird, back home we say ‘There are hungry
kids in Africa, finish your food.’” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What an interesting conversation. I know for a fact that there are hungry kids
that live in my city, in fact a quarter of the population of Grand Rapids lives
in poverty. Why did we grow up hearing
that the problem lives across the ocean from us? The reality is our neighbors
are starving and we could probably bring that half-finished piece of pizza to
them. Are we outsourcing our hearts and
helpfulness? I think it’s easier for
Americans to save face when it comes down to our societal problems and outright
lie about them, but we are up front with our friends and administrations about
smaller issues. It seems to be the
opposite here in Kenya. An
administrative assistant can be telling you for weeks that your id card will be
ready tomorrow, but you’ll actually get it next month. But when it comes down to societal problems
my roommates have no problem telling me how corrupt Kenya is, or my friends
will reprimand me for not eating my pizza because there are kids that don’t have
food right around the corner. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-5867168426519531522013-02-20T18:41:00.003+03:002013-02-28T12:00:22.567+03:00nebeya<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Two weekends ago I had the chance to stay in northern Kenya with the Rendille tribe, and I can honestly say it was the best weekend of my life. Our group stayed in posh huts in the village called Korr (where people from world vision and such stay and host conferences at in the village) and spent the first evening visiting one of the nomadic clans called Uyam. The Rendille people survive and thrive in the middle of the scorching desert. Temperatures while we were visiting probably reached around 105 degrees fahrenheit; everyone naps in the heat of the day, and when the full moon is out they stay up all night. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>getting there: </i>the journey to Korr can take anywhere from 13 hours to 2 and half days by land vehicle, but we got to arrive in style. Our group compromised of 14 students, Jeff (our director), Asaaska (his wife, who grew up in Korr), Leilah (their 6 month old daughter), and Jeff's parents. 18 total, dispersing perfectly between a 13 and a 5 seater plane. We got to arrive in style to Korr. I rode the five seater plane to the village, and it was the experience of a lifetime. The smaller planes don't go as high so we could see all the beauty of Kenya during our 2 hour journey. We flew over all of Nairobi, lush forests sprinkled with waterfalls, Mt. Kenya, and mountains beyond mountains. The smaller plane had an alternator issue about halfway there so we made an emergency landing at a private game park nearly landing on top of 3 zebras in the process. This private park also happens to be the place where Prince William proposed to Kate Middleton. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>children: </i>there is some electricity in Korr (and none in the nomadic villages), so cameras aren't a common place thing. the way to ask someone if you can take their picture in the Rendille language is to ask if you can take the shadow of their soul. the concept of a photo is strange to someone who hasn't been exposed to visual media their whole life... or didn't grow up with a dad taking every opportunity he could to document your life. the kids are marveled by our photos. it started off with all of us sitting at Jeff's family's hut in Uyam, then the children slowly came and surrounded us. I brought pop rocks to share, and most of the kids thought they were gross and spat them out. Later in the evening I shared some of my water with the kids that had surrounded me and it was an eye opening experience. The kids literally trampled each other to get a drop of my water and one kid started bawling. It broke my heart. The little I tried to do backfired on me. Because we were staying for the weekend, the family hosting us bought loads and loads of water bottles so we didn't get sick from the well water. The kids in Uyam(and everywhere we traveled that weekend) loved our bottles and were full of such joy when we handed an empty one to them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>culture: </i>life in Rendille is defined by gender. Beings in Rendille according to importance: men, camels, women, children. As a man you have a few stages in life: child, warrior, husband, elder. As a woman you have two: child, wife. Each has their specific role in society to make it run smoothly. Women take care of the home (even building it), raising and educating the children (mostly by story), and feed everyone (milking the goats, but only virgin men milk the camels). The men take care of the camels, provide protection, and are the leaders of the tribe. Every evening they go to the nabu to pray to god called waakh; the nabu also serves as the democratic center of the village. Only men are allowed to enter the nabu. There is no figure head or leader in the Rendille tribe, they live in a truly democratic society. Women are not allowed to speak to the men to voice a complaint about the tribe. In order to voice a concern to their husband, it must be done inside the hut, the woman seated, head down and she must start by saying kamur, meaning my lord. The Rendille have been living like this for the past 400 years, but recently global warming has expanded the desert and made firewood more scarce and women must walk many kilometers for water. The village of Korr has 3 wells dug by Asaaska's grandfather after World War II. The village is much more modern than the surrounding clans' semi-nomadic existence. Her family lives in a house, not a hut, with electric lights throughout their compound. My personal favorite part of staying in Rendille was meeting the newly weds. The women are stunning-- decked in beads and headdresses. Some girls get married as young as 11 years old, or usually from age 15-18. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>adventure: </i>on our second afternoon we went on a grand adventure to the mountains in search of the sacred camels. The camels are so sacred they get their own day where no camels may be slaughtered and must rest (much like the christian sabbath, but for animals). On our way to the water hole we saw not one, but two herds of camels. One of them was ALL BABY CAMELS. My friends Tyler and Max are working on a documentary about camels and the Rendille, so I pitched in to some of the camel b-roll. We got out of the bus to film the herd of baby camels; while all of the other babies ran away from me, one came right up to my camera. It started getting close and I thought, "wow this is so cool." but then it stuck its nose right up to my camera and pushed past it and nuzzled my cheek. IT WAS MAGICAL. Unfortunately nobody snapped a photo of that moment, but my footage goes from filming a camel, to filming the ground with my squeals in my background. After that magical moment, we went to God's best water park. A waterfall that flows over smooth rock into a refreshing swimming pool. It was a dream come true in the 100+ weather. </span><br />
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koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-80886812878353207182013-01-31T22:48:00.000+03:002013-02-28T12:01:02.521+03:00blessings<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I know I just posted, but I want to share with you some really awesome news I just got along with some major things that have gone wrong this trip for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The first thing stressing me out right now is that all of the bras I brought on this trip are currently m.i.a. and probably never to return. Backstory: you know I had bed bugs and when you get those, you have to wash all your clothes that touched the bedding. And if, like me, you put said items back in your closet before realizing you have bed bugs, all of your bras have to go to the wash. I gave them to my RA and he clipped the plastic bag to his pack. Unfortunately, somewhere between campus and the grocery store they got lost. So I only had the bra I was wearing. But blessings do come, and they come down like rain. My friend Aubrie had a sports bra that was too big for her that she graciously let me have. And on our way back from Nairobi today, our leaders spontaneously suggested we go to the local mall. A mall with clothing stores that carry bras in my size. I know this is kind of personal, but for a guy it'd be like having one pair of underwear for an entire trip. And here, we do laundry by hand and hang it to dry. So I would never be able to wash my bra for an entire semester if not for God's providence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Second, last night my laptop died. Well, at least I thought it did. It wasn't charging, and it is honestly a piece of crap that my school's tech support never fixes fully. So I called them last night and well, yelled at them. I am in Africa and I asked them to fix all of these problems before I left, but they wouldn't listen to me. So I am stuck halfway across the world with a broken laptop. Really helpful when I came here for media studies courses (that commonly involve using your laptop). I had a conversation with somebody in tech support last night that was long and frustrating and received several emails with solutions to the problem that probably wouldn't work in the long run. But I just received an email from tech that reads similar to this: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So we know that mailing might be difficult for you in Africa, so we came up with a better option. We can send you an entirely new laptop with a new harddrive incase yours does not work. And we will give you instructions on how to install your harddrive. And we will install the programs you already have onto it. And we will fully insure the laptop so if something does happen to it, you don't have to worry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I honestly cried when I read that. I had so little faith in God's providence. I am continually learning here what an individualistic culture we live in. Our campus doesn't have maps, and I didn't understand why at first. But then we were taught, just ask. Just ask. Depend on someone other than yourself. Don't be afraid to admit defeat. I was talking with my friend Joy about this earlier this afternoon and she said her father always taught her, just ask and don't be scared. Ask your father for a new pair of shoes, or be bold enough to ask for God's assistance. I've been having a hard time lately asking, so I think God decided to hit me in the face with a truck to try and understand that He has my back, He has had my back, and He is going to continue to have my back. It reminds me of part of Rob's farewell letter to my church, "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the God who got you this far is fully capable of taking you the rest of the way." </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">grace and peace, koly</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-82049913881090202242013-01-31T21:12:00.000+03:002013-01-31T21:12:15.611+03:00mzungu in kenya<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Well, I made it to Kenya mostly in one piece. We've hiked, we've cried, we've danced, we've seen giraffes. Right now it feels like I've been here for years and only hours at the same time. </span><br />
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koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-53943343348425516462013-01-24T00:14:00.003+03:002013-01-24T00:17:29.180+03:00the sun will come out tomorrow<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's hard to believe, but in less than 24 hours I will be driving to O'Hare with my best friend <a href="http://kaitlanspencer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Kaitlan </a>and <a href="http://aubrieinkenya.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Aubrie</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The past week has been full of goodbyes and it's been rough. My brother got home from school and I tackled him with a massive hug and trying to get him out of school tomorrow so he can come to Chicago with me (I'm also trying to win brownie points so he'll let me borrow his ipod for the trip). We've become closer in the last month while I've been living at home and I don't want to let him go. Moving has never been a thing that's difficult or scary for me. Moving into college was one of the best feelings--freedom finally. Then moving out west this summer to the middle of nowhere was the best experience in my life (up to this point). Each move I learned something new about myself, good and bad. This time it's a little different. First, I'm moving to another country. Second, I'm moving with a group of people and travelling with them. I've never done either in my life and I honestly don't know what to expect-- except for lots and LOTS of pictures. </span></div>
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koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-25811656418143371092013-01-17T08:21:00.000+03:002013-01-17T08:21:28.212+03:00<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I miss you like trees</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">miss their autumn leaves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">First it's gold and brilliant, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but they are not resilient.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Slowly crumbling to dust,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the trees cry over the lost. </span>koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-91942555487761555632013-01-15T04:32:00.001+03:002013-01-15T04:32:56.289+03:00kenya beleive it?<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In 10 days I am going to get on a flight that is going to take me to Africa. It's hard to believe it's this soon, let alone that it's actually happening. I have realized that most of what I've told people is:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> a) "I'm moving to Africa to go to school" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> b) "No, I'm not living in a hut, and I am not a missionary, and I did not have to raise support." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Then I proceed to get mad about the assumptions people have about Africa and it's current educational system and don't end up explaining what I'm actually going to be doing in Kenya.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I will be attending university at Daystar University and living in their dorms. Daystar is Africa's top Christian university and has three campuses in Nairobi, Athi River, and Mombasa. Daystar is an internationally recognized school with students from 50 countries attending. I will be at the Athi River campus, which is about a 30 minute drive to Nairobi. Between the campus and the capitol is a game reserve. A strange juxtaposition of city life and wildlife at first sight, but necessary because of the location of the city. Before the park existed people would have to carry guns at night in case they had a run in with a lion in the middle of a city street. The game park creates a way for the wildlife and the city coexist. The Athi River campus is a 300 acre campus with dorms, a library, a chapel, and multiple administrative buildings, but I am most excited about the high ropes course and 150 foot rock face it hosts. They had to put up fences around the campus property because giraffes, the clumsy devils, would walk around campus and knock out windows with their gangly legs. I will be living in a dorm room with not one, but three other students from Africa with community style bathrooms. And no, we don't have a laundry room; everyone does their wash by hand in buckets outside and hanging their garments on a line. It's going to be the experience of a lifetime. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And yes, on top of washing my laundry by hand and trying to become best friends with a giraffe, I will be taking classes. My courses include: Intro to Kenya, Media and Culture, History and Conflict in Africa, and Fiction Film making. I will also have a six-credit internship for my photography that I'm still unsure of what exactly is happening with it (as the Kenyans say, "It will all get sorted out"). But my end product will be a 15 photo exhibit that documents an organization or village I am paired with.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">volunteering in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibera" target="_blank">Kibera </a>slums outside of Nairobi</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">a rock climbing/camping weekend</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">spring break in <a href="http://www.zanzibar.net/" target="_blank">Zanzibar, Tanzania</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">a trip to his wife's village in northern Kenya</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Needless to say, this is going to be the experience of a lifetime and I can't really wrap my brain around it. I am excited and nervous and full of anticipation. I can't wait to discover a new culture and new people and seeing a different way of doing life. I'm excited to discover God in a way that I haven't in the past and learning how the gospel transcends culture. I want to let this trip challenge me to change my thinking and let my spirit be opened up to the spirit of the land I'm travelling too.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">*note this is mostly what I have been told by fellow travelers my program director, and my interpretation of what may or may not happen. </span>koly swistakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498041611356961099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704260752435200358.post-60918825803024614292013-01-14T23:15:00.001+03:002013-01-14T23:16:04.258+03:00chicagoland // reunited<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A few weekends ago my friend Maddie and I had the chance to venture up to Timberwolf Lodge in Northern Michigan with our church. The youth group had a winter retreat and we volunteered to serve dinner to about 300 students. That's a lot of teenagers. That's a lot of Taylor Swift. That's a lot of food. It was a good release of stress after finals week and I don't think any group of teenagers could have been more grateful for mass produced food. Two days wasn't long, but it was long enough to soak in the beauty of the great white north.</span></div>
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