The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots

Author: Emily Sara Smucker

  • Changes, I think

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    If you have a good memory you will remember that I want to become a REAL blogger. Today I went all out. 1. Instead of emilysmucker.wordpress.com, I am now emilysmucker.com 2. Instead of Em’s Blog, I am now The Girl in the Red Rubber boots. For the record, I do not own any red rubber…

  • Old Town, New City

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    Check out how Polish I look. My shoes are still wrong, though. They should look like this. We spent the day in Warsaw. I felt very urban. I was planning to post pictures of graffiti and public transportation and bundled up fashionable ladies and the other urban things I encountered today, but alas, I have a…

  • Airports and Poland

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    I officially do not like flying. It has lost all it’s charm. If you think about it, it should be charming to be in the air viewing the world spread out beneath you like a living road map. But have you ever noticed that once you look at enough road maps they all start to look the same?…

  • I officially do not like flying

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    I am tired of fly

  • A few parting snaps

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    We are leaving I will miss you, tea I will miss you, little frogs I will miss you, my elephant true love I will miss you, random man selling ties on the street. He was excited when I took a picture of him. Then he said, “where are you from?” “America,” I replied. “Show that…

  • The Dangers of Slight Miscommunications

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    The last agenda for the trip was to see cool animals. Enough with people and shopping. Now before I go further, I will say that except for a short layover in Nairobi, the capital city, all our time in Kenya has been in Kisumu. That is the town where Steven grew up and also the…

  • The Days Wind Down

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    Friends Are Nice things to have Even if you are leaving soon Like, tomorrow morning (I don’t know why I look upset in all of those pictures. In reality I am a very happy person.) All photo credits go to Sammy Ihaji. He is the guy on the far right in the first picture, wearing the…

  • What Kenya Looks Like

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    The difference between Kenya and America is that in Kenya there is not so much distinction between indoors and outdoors. You walk right into the mall from the street, without opening any doors. (They don’t call it a mall. They call it a Nakumatt complex. But it is basically a mall.) I was so amazed…

  • A day of bumpy rides

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    I ahm thinking with the accent of a Kenyan now. I spent all day with Kenyan people. Sometimes the car would stop and we would all climb out to take a few snaps. (read: pictures.) We rode along on a very bumpy road in a funny little van where I insisted that Jenny buckle in.…

  • I don’t want to buy some, I just want to talk to you.

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    The agenda for the day was to drive around and look at places where Steven might have been when he was a street boy. We wanted to trigger memories. Memories are very important. “Do you remember this place?” “No,” he always said. Maybe he got frustrated that we always asked and he never remembered anything.…