Kusa = Is a Cow in Swedish

(As our Kiswahili teacher put it)

16/11

The visit to Kusa was mostly for us to see how a typical Kenyan village works and also see how different organizations are helping villages like Kusa to develop and improve themselves. It was fun but also very tiresome since the sun was shining and it was extremely warm outside. We got to see a woman and her house, including the houses of her sons, here mango, cotton and peanut fields and her animals. She was one of those truly strong women in hart and soul and ran her whole household all by herself.

After that visit we went to the village’s little clinic and those who wanted could listen to a woman who spoke no English explain about how her work was as a midwife helping with home deliveries, both the Kiswahili teacher and our bus driver where to embarrassed to translate what she was saying so she took to a very special body language.

A last walk around the area ended our visit to Kusa and we returned to Kisumu, 9 of us going to an amazing Chinese restaurant to eat until we had to unbutton our pants to be able to stand up and walk back to New Victoria Hotel.