How did you hear about Global Routes? I was a rising junior at Brown University, and wanted to take some time off and travel to Africa. We had something called The Resource Center at Brown that catalogued different opportunities for students who wanted to take a leave, which was quite common at Brown, and I found out about GR there.
What was one of your favorite aspects of the program? One of the things which I most enjoyed working on was a newsletter I created with some of the students. It was called “The Mob,” which is Sheng, I think meaning something like “a lot”. I got students to write and be creative, but we also delivered important content to people, such as maps of Kenya, which no one had in the village at that time. It was a 4-page newsletter, the first for the school.
How about one of your silliest moments? We went to Obengo Café over a weekend with other teachers to see if anyone could eat two of their enormous chapattis. After several hours, a 500 ml Black Currant Fanta, and a short jog, Dan Berwick and I bested the rest of the teachers and reached our hideous goal. We then hobbled home to Dan’s village, panting like dogs, where I spent the night. We were just in time for dinner: chapattis!









