On Tuesday I met up with Jen Russell (our program coordinator from Bryn Mawr), after Swahili class. It was good to see a familiar face from home. Whitney, Olungah and I took her to Habesha, our favorite Ethiopian restaurant and we caught up on each others lives in the past couple of months.
Afterwards Olungah and Whitney had places to go, so I took Jen to Maasai Market so she could have that experience. It was an experience indeed. I ended up trading all kinds of things that I dug out of my bag for various Maasai Market items. As I walked by one man he pointed to the hair elastic on my arm and asked me if I would trade it for one of his items. So I ended up trading the hair elastic and a pen and about 27 shillings for a carved soapstone bowl. Another man and woman traded me a pretty necklace that I wanted for a necklace that I was wearing, a luggage lock and two pens. When I showed the man how to move the numbers on the lock to open it, his eyes got really wide and when it popped open he smiled and cried out “it’s magic!”. It was pretty funny. It is surprising the things they want, like they didn’t really want the necklace I had, but they really wanted the pens and the luggage lock and the hair elastic.
I am trying to get myself into exam mode after not really having serious classes for the past 6 months. I am finding it to be pretty difficult. Luckily all of my classes are pass/fail and all you need to pass at the University is a 40%.
Your local information security professional (not for too much longer though! I'm moving to marketing on July 2.) suggests not trusting the URL in the first post unless and until the person who left it here explains what it is. I smell bad ways!
ReplyDeleteI'll trade you that anonymous URL for a luggage lock (that is attached to luggage that is in your hand!)
Miss you bad and big.
Red Sox still 9 1/2 games up on Yankees, who just made it to .500 for the first time since early May. Woo hoo!
Nana of the pie hair:
ReplyDeleteSarah, today I cut out an article written by a Bryn Mawr alum about a class reunion -- saving it for you. Can't wait for you to arrive on U.S. soil -- even if I don't get to see you for another month. Miss you.
love, Nana
"it's magic!" i.can't.stop.laughing.
ReplyDeletelife is so funny.