Wikendi

On Friday, Whitney and I officially became seniors! All of the people in our class though, were officially done with university, so they were a lot more excited than we were. When the exam was over, everyone went out onto the green and was running around like crazy posing for pictures and competing to have the camera man photograph them. It was pretty intense.
Immediately afterwards, I had the highlight of my day, which was getting hit by a bird! It just flew out of the bushes and into my stomach! It was crazy! I was also hit by a small child running around the corner later in the day, but that wasn’t as exciting. After getting hit by the bird, Whitney and I walked to this amazing bakery where I had a delicious meat pie and some carrot cake. Yum. Then we took a matatu to my house and watched Lion King and played video games with Chipa.
On Saturday, Chipa and I got up early so we could be at the YWCA at 8:45 to leave by 9 to go to Nairobi National Park with Whitney. The YWCA has its own personal driver, which Whitney’s mother gets to use whenever she wants since she is the president of the YWCA. So Mtua (the driver) didn’t show up at the house until about 10:45 and the three of us (plus Mtua) drove to Nairobi National Park. By the time we got through the gate and into the park it was about 11:30. We didn’t see much and Mtua kept saying “the best time to see the animals is around 9am to 10am, right now they are all sleeping.” He didn’t just say this once, but at least 5 times during the course of the drive and we all just kept thinking “well, our original plan was to be here early.” He was also very careful to point out all the animal’s “waste” that we passed. He would even stop and roll down his window to look at it. Also, when we came upon our first giraffe he said “oh, yeah, that is animal!.” It was pretty funny. We were all joking with him and saying we didn’t know what we would do without a tour guide as good as him : ) We saw a lot of giraffes close up and some different deer like impala and gazelle and heart-beast? I am not sure if that is a real thing or not-it was some big deer with big horns. We got back around 3:30 and Chipa and I hung out at the Y for a while and then came home and watched “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and “Charlie’s Angels.”
On Sunday, Whitney and I met our friend Ali, who we climbed Mount Kenya with. He had been in Pakistan for the last month doing some work there for the program he works for in Kenya. We had coffee at a place called “Hooters”, which is unlike the infamous Hooters of the U.S, and he told us some crazy stories from his recent adventures. Then he had to go to a meeting with his boss, so we said goodbye and I headed home.