Jogging

I recently made jogging a part of my weekly health care routine. I just got a treadmill that I use regularly as well as running weekly in Karura forest with my Tae Kwondo coach. Currently I can run 9 km/hour for 20 minutes, but I want to imrove so I can run for 30 minutes.

Cross-fit

I just started Cross Fit to improve my strength and stamina. It is very demanding but I enjoy it. The classes are in Gigiri and there is a group of people encouraging each other. Being a Martial Arts student, this is new to me but so far a good experience. It is also difficult, because it's challenging no matter how strong you are you can modify to make it more difficult and heavier.

Crossfit is extremely tough. I've been doing it for three weeks now, and often I have a big problem even walking after I'm done. I feel that it is improving my stamina and some classes are more fun than others because it is very versatile. Many of the exercises you have to learn before you can perform them with weights. That is very important and a lot of fun. If you don't perform the exercises correctly, you might hurt yourself. The people I'm doing it with is really nice and it is like a "cross-fit community". I prefer to do heavy lifting over a lot of repetitions, and leg wod's are horrible but you need them. I try to do three classes a week and I want to compete one day.

Busy summer

This summer has been very busy. I spent 8 weeks in a wellness camp in Austin Texas. I also learned to surf in Corpus Christi, before I went to Sweden to visit with friends and family. The summer passed fast, and I it was all focused on action. I did have time to visit the Photographic museum in Stockholm. They had an exhibition by Nick Brant, a photographer based in Kenya that takes amazing photos of wildlife.

Pads for the candidates

After making reusable sanitary pads for the students for over a year, I realised that the candidates who are doing the National Exams in December are going to need them even more when they go to boarding school. I understand that only a few of them will go to secondary school, but even the ones that will start working are going to need a kit with washable pads. I know that they borrow from each other and even their caregivers use them, so It would be nice to give all of them a kit of 10 pads each. They are going to need a total of 170 pads, and I will start making them now, so I can give them to the girls when they graduate. I'm also planning to make a small drawstring bag that they can keep them in. I don't think I'll have time to make them all myself, so I asked my mother to help me out. She has already bought the material, so now we better start the cutting and sewing!

Planning for Destiny School

Working with Destiny is something I constantly do. Right now, we have lots of clothes and toys that people who left Kenya gave to us to give to the school. I'm planning to meet the headmaster soon to discuss the near future for the school. A friend in Sweden has started a collaboration with the local Rotary club. I sent them lots of images and information and they agreed to help us fund a few projects. The biggest problem in the school is now that they are not able to pay the teachers. This is really a big problem and teachers are leaving the school. They depend on volunteers and that makes the students days very unpredictable. We have said that we are only supporting long term investments, because if we leave, the school would be dependent on us. Now we are discussing if we should change that approach and sponsor some teachers salaries. This is a big problem, and very conflicting because if there are no teachers, there will be no school. We still haven't decided what to do but I'm considering starting a fund raiser for teachers salaries. If someone agrees, we can say that the money doesn't come from us, but from another party, and it is only short term.