Friday Night Fever!

The meal we cooked last night for our guests was the best dinner we have cooked yet! We collaborated on a savory meat sauce that our Kenyan rafikis thought was a beef stew! Even with an interactive explanation of how to eat the dinner we prepared they still put on the pasta sauce and spinach dressing for the pasta and rice on the side of their plates. A true cross cultural moment! In fact the entire experience of hosting Kenyan youth to dinner and a night out was full of unexpected cross cultural mishaps. All bets are off when youth from a low context culture host youth from a high context culture and community - exspecially when your guests are staying over and your electricity is out for 13 hours, your refridgerator defrosts all over your kitchen floor and there is a water ration in your neighborhood of Nairobi. It was the first morning in the apartment our feelings of frustration, anxiety and homesickness showed.
Today we walked to Westlands, paid for our Masai Mara Safari next weekend and bought groceries. We spent the afternoon on our balcony drinking Kenyan Chai and reading. We are very excited to eat dinner tonight at our friend Iddi's house and to go out to listen to some live music to rest before Sunday.
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The photo is the view from the training room our contestants from Mr. and Miss Kibera use to learn cat walk, etiquette, dancing and public speaking.