We have 5 Kenyan staff.  Charles is 26 and in his first year of getting his college degree at Musinde Muliro University in Kakamega town (where I am now, about 45 min from the village).  He is very smiley and the hardest worker we have.  Derrick, Ernest, and Erick all live near the Forest village.  Millie lives farther past Shinyalu (the nearest town about 20 min by piki piki or motorbike).  They all have children from anywhere between 2 and 15 yrs old.  Erick's mom runs the canteen in the village.  You can get a hot kenyan lunch there for 30 Ksh (about 40 cents), or buy bread or soda.  Wilberforce was the previous Chairman of KEEP (Kakamega Environmental Education Program) and has a nice house on the road to the village where his wife Mary sells eggs, tomatoes, onions, and airtime.  The village is small and consists of the forester's house, forester's office, KEEP school house, KEEP tree nursery and butterfly pens, KEEP lodging bandas, a resthouse for tourists run by the Kenyan Wildlife Service, the canteen, medical dispensary, our 2 mzungu houses, and about 10 homes which are rented to the KWS staff.

Barret has been working on the bike to get it in working order.  There are small market stalls along the road between Shinyalu and the village we can bike to to get produce. My off days usually consist of a AM run, reading, house maintanence (like repairing the mesh on the windows), and a good hike!

We have a new set of researchers here now.  James, Bri, and Kaitlyn have left.  Kristen is still here taking over Jame's PhD project.  Nathan is an undergrad from Columbia looking at relation between rank of females and the height at which they feed in fruiting trees.  Su Jen is back for another summer working with males, both lone and resident males of study grps, to assess paternity success.  Agnes is a Kenyan college student helping SuJen as an intern. 

We are planning a large dinner for July 4th and hopefully a campfire if it is not raining.  The 'long rains' are over now, and rain is not guaranteed everyday, but it does usually rain by dinner or at night. 

I have moved on to learning a new group, TWN, not nearly as large as TWS (it has only 6 adult females). They often feed around our house.  Barret has been travelling down to G South land, a decent hike away learning GSC and GSB.

I will introduce you to one more monkey before I go, again in TWS.  Burn is 2 (maybe 3) years old.  I know her from her slit like nostrils, yellow face, hairy ears, and bushy tail. These monkeys have cheek pouches where they will store food to make a quick escape and eat later if necessary.  Burn seems to like to fill her cheek pouches as well as her entire mouth to the point of overflow.  The last few times I have seen her loping through the trees the first thing I notice is her bulging open mouth.