This morning my mom and I went to a church service in Lynn that was led by Kenyan priests. The service was mostly in kiSwahili, but also in Kikuyu (another Kenyan language) and some in English. At one point during the service they passed the microphone around to visitors and we had to introduce ourselves and I introduces myself and my mother in kiSwahili! It was cool : ) Then after the service, I talked with some different Kenyan people and one guy invited us over to his house for a cookout sometime to eat some "good Kenyan food". I hope I get to do that, because I really miss that good Kenyan food.
Then we went outside where the whole church (English speakers) were having a cookout and no one really talked to us and it was a good reminder of how friendly and outgoing East Africans are, and how closed Americans are. Because we were standing by ourselves for a while, we left and went back home. I really liked going to the service and hearing Swahili being spoken, it made me feel like I was back in Kenya for 2 hours : ) Hopefully I will get to go back there again.
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