The last day of three weeks exchange

Friday and the last day of our exchange for this time. We just got the good news that we have succeeded in our application for Linneaus-Palme exchange that make this happened. The best part is that this is the beginning of also the students exchange, so hopefully the first two students will coming to KMTC in September this year from KI and then we will meet two students from Kenya coming in March 2016.

There was a touching day with celebration. Thursday afternoon we have had a celebration with the colleagues and some students and this last day we got a thankful, warmly farewell from the students we had met and work together with this three weeks. They had so many nice speech and we got so many fantastic presents. Both of us became emotional and I have never got such a feedback like this.This exchange have giving so many new experiences and both us as teachers as well as the students had benefit and learnt so many new things. Thanks to LP program and our colleges back home that make this happens. So we say … “if your feet’s once have touch the red soil of Africa you will always return”……

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The last week with fieldvisits in Kibera

The last week of three, times goes fast but at the same time also slow. The African time is not always the same as in Sweden but you have start to like it somehow. Also the English became a bit strange even when you are writing it became a bit with an African accent.

This week the students deepening their knowledge in Research methodology, Hand therapy and Evidence Base practice. They were working with reading articles about studies we already have referred to during our earlier lectures as a group work. The new way of learning and teaching style when the students doing this group work and present in front of each other have had a great input. They wrote in their evaluation of the first half that this was giving self confidence and they needed to participate more in their own learning.  We have of course discussed this a lot with the KMTC teachers in order to not interfere to much with the normality.

We also had the possibility to be taken to one of the biggest slum area in Nairobi with about 800 000 inhabitants. We visit a Community and Home Based Rehabilitation centre that seemed to do a fantastic work and this will be a good field work place for KI students in the future. Working with HIV/AIDS, disable children and their families both with an open clinic but also in their homes in Kibera. They had a small place but day before they had seen 25 children with epilepsy and their mothers.

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Safari at Nairobi park

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Early Wednesday morning we went up at 6 in the morning. We had rent a taxi that could 20150304_10055820150304_10071620150304_10270320150304_091018041take us to the Nairobi National Park, a park with wildlife in the skyline of Nairobi city. Amazing to see the sunset in the horizon the listen to the bird wakening up. The night before we had been shopping our breakfast at Nakumatt. This going to be our free morning.

We had a great tour, driving around in the park for five hours. We saw the burning fire from the occasion the day before, when the president had been in the park setting fire of the tusks in order to statue an example for the wildlife in Kenya and the poaching of the animals.

We saw a proud lioness waling on the savannah. We had a nice breakfast at the leopard cliff until we got attacked by the baboons that took over our nice breakfast with avocado, passion fruits, biscuits, they also manages to open the small  juice boxes.  This is another side of taking part of a teachers exchange.

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The Weekend at the countryside.

017018023024031003013The Head of the Department, Mr Andrew Bii invited us to spend the weekend at his Farm together with his family. We were taking around the farm, we were greeting the cows and the gouts. We also met with all the neighbours and visited a very traditional house. The family  had organized a very nice bedroom for us to stay in. At the dinner we tried a lot of traditional food like, ugali, nomatchona, the sour milk, chapati, sukomaviki, and also we also had a lot of fruit. On saturday afternoon we ent down to the nearest village to great more of the neighbours and we also had the opportunity to visit the local hospital and the newborne childern and we saw a beatiful newborn twins. Sunday we went back to Nairobi and 7 hours later we reached Nairobi, satisfied and tired after a weekend with a lot of new experiences and knowledge.

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