night fright

I was just reading Joy's comment about music when she was abroad and sitting in this internet cafe where there are posters of Britney Spears and Bob Marley all over the walls and Elton John is playing. Tiiiimes they are a changin'. I just thought that was ironic : )

So last night there was an international student meeting at 4. Kenyans (and it turns out other Africans) love to talk...so this meeting went on and on because the board kept talking and then international students kept talking....and it was getting darker, and as soon as I decided to leave, the president of the school came up from the back and was talking, so when I finally left it was about 6. I rushed to the matatu stop, taking a short cut to cross over to the street I needed to be on. Then, my sense of MISdirection (that's what I'm calling it now) kicked in and I got lost. I have NO idea how. I was walking around and around and things were becoming less familiar as it got darker. FINALLY I got to the stop after asking 4 people how to get there. There was a huge crowd of people and when one bus finally came it was a mob scene. I don't know how i got on. Then there were no seats left and I squatted in the back to avoid being kicked off like the other non-sitters. So then of course, the matatu decides to take a different route (just to spice things up) down some crazy side roads I had never seen before...and it's dark. So I ask someone "is this Kariakor?" And he says yes. Then the guy next to him says no. I asked the guy who worked on the matatu and he wouldn't answer me. Then everyone behind me starts asking each other, like they were debating about where we were!! AAhhh. Finally some woman asked if I needed to go to the church, and I said yes! The one land mark I know! So she helped me and I made it home just as it turned pitch black. Oh. my. gosh. Kind of nerve wracking....

Otherwise things are good. I am getting a little sick of the food though. The words my mom said to me over and over growing up whenever I complained about food keep echoing in my head "most people around the world eat the same thing every day!". Every day for breakfast I eat two eggs. Then for dinner about three or four times a week we have dengu which is a greenish stew made from lentils. And rice. Or we have beef and cabbage, or beef and potatoes. That's about it. The beef is very hard to chew. But (mom) I am not complaining! Just mentioning : )

I have to go find Whitney and Jenna because we are trying to get this 7 day camel safari organized. That should be pretty crazy if we do it!

Love to you all