Rural week is finally over and I can easily say it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. We spent the week living with families in a rural village of Western Kenya near the shores of Lake Victoria engaging with locals and participating in their daily lives. As a development student who is very conscious of how I portray the communities I am interacting with, I have been grappling with how to effectively communicate my experience in a way that captures it in its fullest and does its best to accurately portray how I have come to understand what life is like there, but all in a way that does not seek to reinforce stereotypes. In that vein, I wanted to emphasize that what I write in the next posts, detailing my actions and experiences throughout the week (as this is how I think I can best do justice to my time there) it does not fully encapsulate my experience nor does it the lives of the community's inhabitants. With that cautionary note, I hope you enjoy reading the chronicles of my week and seeing some of the pictures.
AuthorAmerican University Student studying abroad in Kenya and India and wandering the world Archives
May 2015
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