Friday, April 2, 2010

Thursday April 1, 2010


I learned how to lash the sticks together to make the framework for my house..
It's actually going to be a 2 room castle!


Dang my friends! It’s so good to hear from all of you and that you are all killin it back at home! These past two days have honestly been off the HOOK! Yesterday we went on an all day safari and it was easily the coolest thing of my life... we saw elephants, giraffes, kudu, antelope, impala, cape buffalo and a cheetah was honestly ten feet from our van, just walking up and down the side of our van like a true boss. it was sooo dope we have the best footage of it. I will try and upload some of the photos to mobileme and tell you my address if I can get it some how. The only problem is that it takes so freakin long for the pictures to upload on attachments that I think the only way to do it is mobileme cause it doesn’t take as long... I put a couple dope pics up on the site two days ago and I thought you guys would know it but I will send you the address again or something. On the safari we also kinda saw a lion but it was like 200 hundred yards away and we could only see his tail swishing around in the bush but our driver Johnson said that it was for sure a lion so we are counting it. Johnson is such a bad dude, I already planned a safari with him when you guys get to Kenya and we will go into the same place we went, Tsavo east and it is so sick back there. He has been our driver for the past week but he is a safari driver for a living and he is so sick. He is stoked for you guys to come and so it will be dope.

Here I'm getting my Duruma name: Rua wa Chengo

I was able to break ground for the Austin Frampton school. They let me toss the first shovel of dirt!
Anyways, today we went into Dzivani for the official ground breaking of the Austin Frampton School. It was insane! They were honestly worshipping me, they just thirst for an education and they will do anything for another structure. I can’t remember if I told you this already, but we are just adding on the existing primary school and it is going to be so dope. They had a huge welcoming committee for us and they sang for like an hour and Bret just said that we had to keep smiling and waving and acting like we were enjoying it haha. It was getting old though, but they are so stoked. Then we went over to the actual ground where it is going to and they had me swing the shovel first and the whole village just lit up and starting jumping for joy. It was hotter than hell too, I was just sweating to death, and the locals were just laughing at me. Luckily I haven’t really burnt yet but I know I will. Some of the locals here even say that they get burnt sometimes so white man is screwed ha ha.... but then they gave me a Duruma name and I met my adopted dad and grandfather. They are both sooo tight but they have the worst teeth you have ever seen. They are so stoked on me tho so its all good. I went into this circle of the village elders and this dude was just screaming swahili at me for a good five minutes and then he gave me my name and it is this sacred process I guess... my new name is Rua Chengo, its pronounced like roo-ah. but you roll the r like you speaking Spanish. Sick huh! It’s a type of flower, but I saw the flower in the wild and it is so sick, its not femi at all which I thought it would be. So I am now Rua! Everyone here calls me that now its funny cause no one can pronounce Dallin it sounds like “Dulleen” it is funny.

Here's my new dad, Chengo

My house is also almost finished, and honestly I can say that it is the nicest one in the whole village... I feel so bad cause these guys will work for 300 schillings a day which is about 3 dollars and they think they are rolling in the benjamins just to finish my house. They put in an archway at the front made out of palm leaves and a nice little porch, I’m living the life in this new village straight up! But it won’t be finished until next Tuesday or so, so I have to stay at the KCC until then which is a bummer cause that village is ugly I think... Dzivani is soooo freakin pretty, rolling hills of red sand and trees and the sacred forest of Ghandini where there are lions and monkeys and stuff. Oh yeah, and I talked to Anthony today and he said the school will be finished at the LATEST in six weeks... how insane is that from start to finish. And the ladies do all the work with kids on their backs the whole time just swinging shovels, you have no idea how strong these duruma ladies are. The coconut trees are my favorite tho by far, they are at the lowest part of the land because that is where the water is so at all the little valleys in between the hills there are coconut groves and they look so sick its ridiculous. I love this freakin place I can’t even tell you. That’s all I got for today really.. I am gonna try and get these pictures up so you can see the safari... Have fun riding Bear Paw. I miss those trails so much and I wish I had my bike here! The roads are sick here for bikes... any way keep doing what you do family, and keep killin it... LATER

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