Kankakee in Africa

Here is my brother Bob in his Kankakee shirt attempting to play ping-pong with a cat in Africa. Despite the impression you may get from this photo Bob and his wife Michelle are doing some very important work in Zambia as part on an AIDS research project with Emory University and the Gates Foundation. You can read about the adventures of a couple Kankakee kids Africa at thier blog: http://michellebobzambia.blogspot.com/

Bob has made some interesting connections because of his Kankakee shirt. This is how he explauned it in a recent email:

"I wore my Kankakee shirt to a mzungu (foreign person) party at a friend's house. From across the room someone asks…"Hey is that Kankakee, Illinois?" She was a former University of Illinois student familiar with the Shell on Court Street. She had a roommate that was from Bourbonnais. I didn’t know her and I can't remember her name now. I will try to get better details in the future. Last weekend while cooking out at my place this guy says, “Your really from Kankakee?”. He was from Naperville and played Kankakee in football. Uniquely, he moved to Atlanta and then to Zambia. A somewhat similar path to my own."