kenya pants!!

worried that i didn't make it back from kenya?  fear not!  i returned safely!  currently drowning in doctoral work.  class started 3 days after i returned from kenya!  (ask me how i was the only one who showed to class that monday...)  i had a presentation yesterday (meh) and i have a paper due tuesday.  what better time than to update the blog?

i thought of giving away the 3 pairs of pants that i made to the dear masai girlies who attended the school where we built the library foundation.  how cool would it be to go back to the village, say even in a couple years, and see people donning my handmade clothing??  however, then i got practical and realized i actually lack lounge pants in ny, seeing as i took apart my favorite pair of pj pants to serve as a pattern for these pants, so selfish me, i kept all 3.  this red pair became my primary pair of work pants at the site.  cotton gauze is amazing in scorching hot kenyan weather!  here i am, using a pickax to break up rocks that were impeding our laying down of the library walls.  pickaxes are heavy!

i made 2 pairs of grey-green pants as well.  here was the first pair, also filthy from much manual labor.  i'm wearing mom's floppy orange beach hat that i bought her in honolulu to protect me from the sun.  the kids all wore safari hats.  i, of course, had to be unique (and goofier-looking!).  hahhahahaha

there are the library walls and foundation.  those rocks that form the wall were HEAVY!  think 50 pounds or more!  that's half my weight!  the experience was amazing though.  i loved working with the masai kids on their math and playing soccer with our boys and their boys after construction every day.  this last picture is from our safari drive.  it's part of a group picture, so i cut everyone else out (hehe, gotta maintain the spotlight, yo!).  conveniently, i'm in the front (i mean, where else would i be? the back?), so you have a good shot of my pants.  all 3 pairs actually have functioning drawstrings (look carefully below), which as you may know, are not often features of my handmade pj pants!

that's right, i traipsed through nairobi and the masai mara in glorified pj pants!  holla!