August 20 Monday
The weather has become hotter and more humid, I am taking 3 showers a day, morning, afternoon and just before bedtime.
We did not work in the field today, we rode on the truck to the nearest largest city called Lodwar, population around 50,000 people. The main industries are basket weaving and tourism. It is the capital of Turkana county. It was a little over an hour’s drive away. Everything around here seems to be about an hour away by vehicle.
Our first stop was the Turkana University College, I do not have any pictures of this place but it is a very small college in the middle of nowhere with one main building and a library that has just a few bookshelves. The librarian tried to show us their cataloging system on an HP computer that did not work.
We were given a short tour of the building and then treated to lunch there. I found a dead fly in my rice and sort of lost my appetite after that. We also saw the dorms for the students, rather cramped and very third world looking. The college has only been open for a year and a half and has many needs, one of the main ones is a good source of water.
After the tour we went to the downtown area to look at…what else, a basket weaving store. A few people in the group purchased some baskets. The rest of the shops did not look very appealing so we left right after looking at the basket shop.
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