Wednesday

this week has been very relaxing. on tuesday and wednesday i went home after work, listened to music, did laundry, read and basked in the sun. we had a picnic yesterday, watched I,Robot and played checkers out on the lawn. tomorrow we're having a birthday party / sleepover at our house, which most of us are very excited about. we'll be slaughtering a goat, which anne-marie bought at an auction for us. lots of music, spaghetti, tea and games will be present. it'll be nice because there are very few opportunities to spend time with the group after dark in this phase, due to the 7pm curfew. we'll probably be packing three people to a bed because of the limitted sleeping space, possibly four in some.

saturday we're going to nairobi, i hope to see some elephants being fed in the morning, and there's a free exhibition of photographs related to the 2007-2008 post election violence. the gallery is supposed to be very cool, and since it's free everyone in the group would probably be interested.

i forget if i wrote this in the last post, but i'll write it again just in case - i'm very excited about it. last saturday i rode a camel! it wasn't for very long, and i paid more than i should have, but i doubt i'll have another opportunity to do so again in the near future.

today anne-marie's boss is visiting the groups in africa. she landed in nairobi yesterday, and after seeing our team and the other team not far from here, she'll be heading down to tanzania.

on monday night kenya had its first presidential candidate debate in the history of kenya. it was very interesting to watch, and i was forced to watch it due to a safari ant invasion which consumed our bedroom. safari ants are called that because thousands of them all travel in a single line, both directions, and bite you if they get on you. nasty buggers. we had no supplies such as salt water or rubber to burn, so we just had to sleep through the night with them - i dreamt of them attacking me all night. it was kind of brutal.

not much time left, thinking of home lots, but still trying to really squeeze every second out of my time here in kenya