Goodbye Kenya….
In a few hours we will be boarding a plane for Cape Town and moving on to the next chapter of our adventure (speaking of which, I guess we’ll have to change the title of the blog!)
To clear up a few items of confusion we’d have from people:
1) We are no longer Peace Corps Volunteers. We ended our service on August 1st (but didn’t post then b/c Sam and Miranda ended a few weeks later) and will be doing our work on our own. We both really valued our experience and don’t regret a single moment. However, we hope that we have found an opportunity that will allow us to find more success and fulfillment while still doing development work.
2) Peace Corps did not submit us to any draconian measures when we decided to leave. Although the program is for 2 years, you are allowed to end your service at any point (we are volunteers after all.) We left on very good terms and the country director was very supportive of our decision and all the work we had done.
3) Our move to Cape Town is not permanent. Our plan is to be there for 6ish months. We want to stay in the region to cultivate our “development world” contacts, but then we’ll return home (possibly with some traveling here and there before we return.) We long to lie on the dock at Starlight, hike in the Cascades, fly fish on the Yakima, canoe in Puget Sound, spend time with all the babies (or not babies anymore!) who don’t know us, and see all of our families.
So…next time we post, it will be from South Africa!!
Bebeth and Mark
ps - Many thanks to Stephen Fisher and the Lakeside Science department for identifying the fish from the last post. Its a mudskipper. You can read more about it at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudskipper
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