Mount Kenya

Wednesday was a good day. We had Psychological Anthropology which was interesting although there was a big discussion on rape where some of them men were saying that blaming men for rape is putting too much pressure on the male sex, because if women are dressing provocatively it is there fault too. Wow.
After class I went to check out flights to Capetown to visit Zoe, but then realized that I didn’t have a multiple entry visa for Kenya, so I wasn’t sure if I would be able to get back into Kenya when I got back and thought I should figure that out before I bought the ticket. So that is my mission over the next couple days.
Whitney and I went to Java House for lunch and ran into two girls from the St. Lawrence program there so we invited them to sit with us and we all ate together. Some of the people in their group are climbing Mount Kenya from Sunday to Wednesday so Whitney and I decided to tag along since we had wanted to do that sometimes while we were here. So we are going to climb Mount Kenya! Next week! Wahoo!
After lunch we had Swahili and the past couple classes we have had a substitute teacher, Rose, who we like a lot because she’s funny and she goes a lot faster than Daniel, our usual teacher who is currently in Tanzania. After class, on the way to our respective matatus, Rose and I went to several “chemists” which are the pharmacies here to try to find one that carried the type of inhaler I need, and finally found one on our third try that had them. I feel like such a dork including this in my blog, but it was exciting to actually find a chemist that had them because I was not optimistic about that : )
I went home and met Junior and Senior (two of the guys I met yesterday) and then Mirab came out and I gave her my contact info in the U.S. which she wanted for when she saves up all her money and moves to the states. She plans to open an African Food Restaurant in Boston, specializing in ugali and chai and she is going to plait hair on the side. I told her it was a good plan. Hanging out with all these kids at the basketball court kind of reminds me of my childhood when all the kids in the neighborhood would play basketball until it got dark, and Mirab kind of reminds me of Kira. It makes me a little nostalgic for seventh and eighth grade….just a little though : )