Visiting Kenyan Athletes

Day 32
8:00 Breakfast
10:00 Visit Kip Keino Training Centre
1:00 Lunch
3:00 Wildlife Conservation
5:30 Archaeology Final Exam
7:00 Dinner With Athletes

Meeting Kip Keino

The Athletes Having Dinner At Camp With Us

   Kip Keino is a two time Olympic gold medalist for running. He has a training centre here in Kenya for atheletes to train for upcoming races and the Olympics. We were priviledged to be invited into the training centre and shown around. The manager gave us a tour. "It was a very high class area, the house was huge with an open living room and a t.v. room (satelite t.v.) and a beautiful kitchen and dining room. Everything was so clean and big and spacious. They have 3 beds per room in the bedrooms. There are aproximately 20 athletes that live there now, between ages 19-25." In the evening the atheletes were invited to our camp to have dinner with us and I met Kip Keino himself! It was so exciting to meet him.
   Today was our archaeology final exam, this was my favourite course here and I was sad that it was ending. I spent the afternoon studying with the other girls, putting out blankets to sit on and study in the sun. "I am a true camping girl; I put my blanket on the ground - over dried up cow poop - and I am going to use it tonight to sleep with!" 10 years ago today I met an Olympic gold medalist!