Bill Toone, a conservation program specialist for CRES, helped implement a teacher training program in Kenya. In blogs, he shares his experience as he works with Dan Rubenstein, a Princeton University scientist, and Louise Bradshaw, the St. Louis Zoo’s education director, to inspire the next generation of Kenyans to work for wildlife conservation. Read Bill’s previous blog, Kenya: Giraffe Sighting.

It’s hard to keep up on these logs, sometimes. We keep a full day and go back to camp around 6 to 7 p.m., dinner is at 7:30 p.m., and then, quite honestly, I am ready for bed. I am up by about 5 a.m. and usually awake for a while before that, listening to the sounds of the camp. About 5:45 a.m. I hear camp staff bring water up from the muddy river and pour it into huge pots over a perpetual fire. Then they ladle out hot water into a bucket and add cold water until it meets the approval of their hand being swished through the water. Once they approve of the temperature, it is carried to one of the showers and the warm water is ladled into an overhead bucket. You step under the bucket, lift a lever, and somewhere between a trickle and a shower of warm water streams down onto you. Warm water, the crisp cold mornings, and we are ready to go!

Bill Toone is a conservation program specialist for Conservation Education/CRES.

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