Today marks the 6 week countdown. 8 weeks and I will be home in Lake Oswego!
It was a beautiful weekend in Nairobi proper! Saturday my roommate Denise and I went to a Maasai Market in town near the Hilton and then to Kibera to meet with JECK. The Maasai Market was hot and crowded with "mzungu" swarming the rows of vendors. I bought presents for Jessi and Vincent and then Denise and I picked the KBS bus #32 to the DO's Office on the outskirt of Kibera. We walked into Mashimoni Village to St. John's Primary to meet with the women. Jemima, JECK's chairwoman, told us the women's would not be meeting on that Saturday because she was hosting a parents day for the school. It was amazing to observe a schoolwide parent-teacher-administrator conference! We left the conference early to meet our apartment-mate Sophie in a small vegetable market to buy our veggies for the weekend. We walked together to Nakumatt Prestige where we all took tea and used the free wireless Internet for couple hours. Hopped a bus back into town and headed home for relaxing Saturday evening and movie night!
Sunday morning Denise, Sophie and I woke up early and walked into Westlands. Denise and Sophie continued on to RaMoMa in Parklands (the Museum of Modern Art here in Nairobi). I bought a new adapter for my computer from the Sarit Center (a Western-ish shopping mall) and then caught up with them 45 min later. RaMoMa is a sanctuary of lush green plants and beautiful art from local artists. We walked to Diamond Plaza (a shopping mall frequented by the Indians who live in the Parklands neighborhood) and then picked a teksi (taxi) home to Njema Court. We spent the sunny afternoon laying by the pool and studying for out kiSwahili midterm on Tuesday. Denise and I went for a short jog and then our apartment watched a UNICEF program on tv that one of our apartment-mates was working at through her externship with Shangilia Mtoto wa Afrika!
Can't wait for Wednesday morning to watch the election results at the American Ambassador's Residence!
3 comments:
You must have a nice camera, what a beautiful picture. sounds like all is going well. Keep up the good work and I will see you in a month.
YAAAAYYY!!! 8 LONG WEEKS. cant wait to see your face. Good to hear your doing so many different things over there. It sounds like quite the experience! Keep it up J, You are really living your dream right now. Love you miss you.
Such great photos! Did your absentee ballot make it all the way out there? As you can imagine things are crazy in DC today..but seems like you get the better end of the stick at the Ambassador's house!
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