I have returned from Kenya and am feeling like my head is floating. I will have to write several days of blog posts to explain all the things that happened there. Today, since I am extra spacey I will just start with a few quick reactions:
totally and completely out of my comfort zone-which is a very VERY narrow zone I have realized, cold showers outside at sunset, working all day in the hot sun, being around people all the time, nowhere to hide, weak coffee, eating only carbohydrates, early rising. Felt *very* white Italian-american girl from New York goes to Kenya, felt uncultured as hell and like my normal everyday life is pretty boring.
Amazing and astonishing birds, bugs, plants, people, fossils, food and oh the LIONS! the lions.
I know everyone wants to hear the good things about the trip how everything was teeming with life and it was...but mostly I was operating exclusively with the constant buzz of a broken heart because Joe was not there to see it all with me. He would have loved it, much more than I even did. There, I said it.
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it was a long time to be away, esp on your first fieldwork trip. I think anyone would have felt out of place like you, the first time. How do you even prepare for it, mentally? I don't think you can. You can only hope for the best. I'm glad you made it back in one piece!
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