Monday Monday

On Monday I met Olungah and Whitney and another girl (can’t remember her name) for lunch in town. There a place in town that has amazing roasted chicken, so we ate that and ugali and sakumawiki. It was very good. Then I went with Olungah back to his office and we hung out there for a while before my friend Eve came over and then the three of us walked back to town. They went somewhere and I headed home.
On the matatu a man named Abdu sat next to met and started talking to me and told me he was from Ethiopia. He was really nice and paid for my ride and asked me if he could cook me lunch sometime, but I told him that I was leaving on Wednesday, so that wouldn’t work out. But, he confirmed my theory, that Ethiopian men (at least the ones who ride the number 9 matatu to Eastleigh) are extraordinarily nice and outgoing.
Then I came home and watched “Blood Diamond” with Chipa and Monica made us mandazis, which are like little fried dough’s. YUM. It is so crazy how fast this time is going and to think that I will be on a plane in no time, headed back west. I feel like my head is going to be spinning for quite a while.

On the news on Monday night was a story about how the Catholic priests of Kenya met to talk about condom use and decided that it was not allowed, even for people with HIV. The report said that 315 people die each day in Kenya from HIV/AIDS and that 9 out of 10 do not know their status. The Episcopal priests met and said that if a couple was discordant (one positive and one negative) then condom use would be okay. It is pretty alarming that this is happening, when 315 people a day, that is about 115,000 people a year are dying from AIDS, just in Kenya. You’d think you could make an exception and allow the use of condoms if it would save a few…thousand lives.