Easter Weekend

This past weekend was all fun and games because of the fact that it was Easter. Literally though all we did was NO work. On Saturday another volunteer that is working in Nakuru invited Kerry and I to visit her and stay overnight where she is staying so we can have some fun in Nakuru. We arrived in Nakuru after hitchhiking our way there with a local family, and met up with Rosemary and Jackie. Jackie is the volunteer staying in Nakuru and Rosemary is a representative of the program she is in Kenya for. We said goodbye to Duncan and began having some fun by going to a national rugby tournament that was being held within the town. This activity lasted the entire day. However, it was a lot of fun because I got to meet some interesting people and see a Rugby match which I had never seen before. That night we went to a very local Kenyan bar/restaurant and ordered lots of food. We got Nyama Choma which is chopped up goat on a huge metal platter, some uglali, a salad, and some cabbage mush. All of which we had to eat with our hands. Dinner ended around 10pm and we got back to the house and decided to watch the Lion King which was a lot of fun because we could translate all the swahili terms in the movie. For example, Rafiki means "friend", Simba means "lion", and asanti sana means "thank you very much". But it was also simply fun to see the Lion King while being in Africa myself.

On Sunday we arrived back at the research center at 1pm because we were stuck in the Matatu for 1 1/2 hours. This was because we had to wait for the Matatu to fill up before leaving and we were the first ones in. For the rest of the day we relaxed of course because it was Sunday and then later I got a call from Valerie (if you dont know Valerie, she is a family friend and my old next door neighbor) telling me that she has arrived in Soysambu. Later that night I met up with Valerie, Tom, and a whole bunch of other people and we went to the top of a mountain to watch the sunset but because we sorta took the wrong way we missed the sunset and sort of had a night time get together. But it was a lot of fun. After catching up with Valerie and meeting her friends and Toms family we went back to Toms house for dinner at 11pm and then went back to the Research Center at 12pm. It was a long but interesting night.

By the way im now rescheduled to stay till the 10th of May instead of leaving the 2nd.

Hope to see you soon!