Today will end the first JUMP mission: bringing media equipment to a group of teens, teaching them how to use it, and then work with them to creat AIDS awareness projects. The teens have racted with a vigor that exhausting to try and match.

We've met every day this week to work an various AIDS awareness projects. I've been working with the podcasts group: Judy, Mercy, Lucy, Patrick, Talvi, Rory and I. A smaller group, but we've achieved a lot.

As I said earlier (I think), all of our humor mixes surprisingly well. We'll come to work and it won't be tedious at all: it can be relaxing and fun.

The shocking part is getting to know their personal stories. For instance, I did a podcast today where I interviewed a JUMP Nakuru member who recently lost 5 family members in three years (extended family). Judy, sitting next to me, is the person I've gotten to know the most in this past week. She just got done explaining to me how three years ago she lost six family members in eighteen months. Her father's three out of four sisters and their husbands. All the kids are living with other family members, some too young to remember the faces of their parents. A third member of JUMP Nakuru lost a 10 year old niece just last week to AIDS.

But you've never guess all that for how much they dance and sing and joke around.

I learned a lot durring the week spent with JUMP Nakuru, and I look forward to working with JUMP Nairobi.