Alhamisi

Thursday we had our Swahili exam in the morning, first the written and then the oral. The written was much different than I had expected, and included writing a 300 word essay in kiSwahili (whoa), but I think it went pretty well. I went first for the oral exam, and then waited for Whitney and Jenna to finish theirs, and then we all ate lunch at Hekima (the language school). Lunch was a big bowl of fruit-banana, mango, papaya (which is called pau pau here), watermelon (which I took out) and avocado. It was very good.
Afterwards we all took the bus back to town, and I went to go visit my friend Philip at the university hostels. He has been asking me to visit for a while, but I was always busy or sick when he wanted me to come, so I thought I should pay him a visit. He is a pretty cool guy and when we asked him what his plans were after graduation, he said he is running for mayor! He told us that is why he is often not in class, he has to attend all these political meetings. Wow. I was impressed. He made us chai and we sat around and talked for a while before I had to catch my matatu home.
Then I came home and studied for my Psychological Anthropology exam and watched TV with Chipa. Monica made pilau for dinner ,which might be right up there as my favorite Kenyan dish…but there is a lot of competition for that : )