This week (now that looking for blogs to follow is a bit easier for me) I found a blog titled "Kenya Dig It!?" Yes, the title's all cutsie and funny. I love it. This blog is kept by a woman named Allison Hibb, who switches from living in both Kenya and the United States, and she keeps it as her travel log while living in Kenya. The site is a collaboration of stories and many (many...did I say many?) pictures of her days spent working with Kenyans. These blog posts started as fact-filled and informative, then evolved into something meaningful to Allison, a documentation of the new friends she made and the love she has for every last one of them. Those who follow this blog are informed of life in Kenya, the ups and downs of working for the Oasis of Hope ("a drop-in center for street children in...Kenya"), and what Allison tries to accomplish in living there.
Though this blog does not have a single or cut-and-dry purpose, it does give detail of Hibb's journeys in Kenya, leaving the reader to interpret this as they will (moving, informative, for personal appeal, for business). To add to her photographs, Hibb uses ellipsis, interruptions, anaphora, inverted sentences, zeugma, synecdote, allusion, and hyperbole while talking about her day. Her post "It's Friday, I'm In Love" on July 16, 2011 shows 112 pictures of the community and friends in Kenya that Hibb has to leave because she's moving back to America again. These pictures have captions above most and one in particular says,
"At break, we took individual pictures...said individual goodbyes...said "Nakupenda" (I love you) about 300 times."
This is an example of anaphora, ellipsis, and hyperbole use to explain her photographs and say how many times it felt like she had said "Nakupenda" (I love you) to her friends.
Though I actually can't tell how many followers "Kenya Dig It!?" has, I have read most of the blog posts and noticed that they rarely have more than one comment. I think that this blog is beyond inspirational and is beautiful to see the smiles in all the pictures posted or to read how happy being in Kenya makes Allison.
To read this beautiful blog, visit "Kenya Dig It!?" at:
http://kenyakenyakenya.blogspot.com/
Stay in the clouds, Cadets...
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