Monday Monday

Well as I said yesterday, a bomb exploded in the city center of Nairobi Monday morning. Whitney and I were saying how we had been warned so much by our program coordinator about how dangerous Nairobi was, but we hadn’t found it to be very dangerous, especially in the center of the city. Ironically, our program coordinator arrived Monday morning to visit Kenya and check out the program. So the day she arrived, a bomb went off. So much for proving her wrong.
Besides that craziness, the day went pretty well. We had Swahili in the morning and then met up with Olungah and my favorite professor, Mrs. Bukachi, and went out to lunch. After hanging out in the city doing various things, I headed home.
I was watching the news tonight about the bombing and at one point they were talking about the police statement and interviewing different police officers, mostly in kiSwahili, so I didn’t understand most of what they were saying. What I found somewhat humorous was that the caption at the bottom of the screen read: “police statement: this was a serious crime incident.” No kidding. Apparently BBC news reported that the bombing was Al Quaeda, which seems like a pretty bold statement to be making when according to all the authorities here, nobody has any idea who the bombers were.
The leading story here seems to be that two men were trying to get onto the bus with the grenade to go to the airport, but someone bumped the one with the grenade while he was outside of the bus, and the bomb went off. I can’t believe they thought they could make it to the airport on a crowded bus, not to mention how horrible the roads are. I personally would not want to be holding a grenade for over an hour while the bus bounced in and out of pot holes and people elbow you constantly getting on and off…but that’s just me.