Sign Up Hang Up

Apr 28, 2011 by Naomi.

I will explain what I signed up for or with. Earthwatch, studying Grevy’s zebras in Kenya. Well I have been to Kenya, although at Lake Naivasha to study fish and Lake Baringo to count flamingos. So it appears I am working up the evolutionary levels of vertebrates. English is the national language so communicating while traveling around the country is not a problem. I spent many hours on the water for fish studies and miles walking and riding in a van to count and classify flamingo carcasses. The zebras range in the Samburu district, at least that is where this census will occur. The number of zebras is shrinking because the habitat is disappearing by encroaching civilization, illegal poaching for skins and hunting by natives for food. The count will be taken while riding in a van with the team I will join. But the sign up was a minor action for the day. I hung my bedding on the clothes line to air in the brisk breeze and washed and hung up tee shirts and underwear, which took much more time and energy. Then I buried myself in my stamp collection. I really get into it. Clears my brain of all other thoughts, believe me. I have to search for the strange countries whose names I found on the stamps in the package from Mystic Stamp Company. Some have changed the names and some just simply exist no more. The job gets my detective juice working. Not nearly as scary as Bitter Lake. But I better get my rest. Tomorrow I will be at the teepee learning station to inform 60 third graders about Indians. Beat the drum, bury the hatchet, or scalp the rowdy.

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