ah yes, the little guys...

It wouldn't be a well rounded or at all accurate blog about Kenya without proper recognition of the little wonders, insects and arachnids.   I have had relatively few interactions with them so far, relatively speaking as they are of course, everywhere, but there maybe was a strange invertebrate eblast that went out last night to all the local 6 and 8 legged friends because my housmate and I felt as we were under attack!  Beetles of all sizes, mosquitos in full force, large flying termites and an unidentified stinging wasp thing that found itself between my arm and my shirt- ouch.  These all were visitors to our porch, kitchen and bathroom as we tried to get ready for bed.

So, with the theme in mind, I hope you enjoy the picture below.  My housemate took its picture earlier with a macrolens.  We thought it was a very strange looking spider, with lots of odd shaped bumps on it's body.  When we looked at the picture on the computer later, we learned that the "bumps" were actually alive!!!!

The thing that I love about Africa, and travel in many parts of the developing world, is that it wakes you up.  Most people in the U.S. have a realitively comforatable life.  For many people here though, daily life is very different.  Not only do I feel inspired by nature and the resiliancy of the people, but I also feel more affirmed in my desire to live simply and minimize all the things that I don't really need. 

Tonight I fly home.  One more adventure as we travel to Nairobi and I will be back.  Graland students, I hope to see you all again soon- it has been a pleasure to blog with you all!