So tonight, I will post a few photos from the past several days.
By the way, I'm sitting here in the dark - the electricity just went off, and no one seems to be running to turn the generator on! Hopefully soon...
in the meantime, I'll try to post a few photos:
On Monday, we went to go and try the new aerobics class at the UN Compound. However, there was a seriously mean guard at the gate, and he wouldn't let us into the gym! However, folks from NGOs are allowed to walk around the track in the UN camp, so we ended up doing that instead. It's a nice place to walk - it's a HUGE camp, and they have a nice smooth (but gravel, of course) road to walk on, where you don't have to worry about stepping over piles of garbage or puddles of pee, or being yelled at by curious locals. It's really a much more relaxing place to walk than in my own nieghbourhood.And happily enough, as we were walking, the sun started setting, and it turned out to be the most amazing sunset. It was just gorgeous, and because we were in the UN camp, with lots of wide open spaces around us, we could really enjoy the changing colours of the sky. It was just beautiful. True eye candy from God - something I don't get much of around here.
One day last week, we went to our local restaurant for lunch. While eating, Jennie told us a story about a rat (yes, there are still a few of those around), which was rather shocking. Actually, in the course of her telling the story, we decided it would make a wonderful "easy reading" story for a book, so I took a few photos for the book. This is one of them. I was shocked, can you tell?
Come to think of it, a lot happened over meals last week! On Friday, I went on a "field trip" with Richard. I love going out with that guy, 'cause he always goes to interesting places, and tells me all sorts of stories about the places we pass by (since he was born and raised in this town). It's always good fun to go to the market with him, too, as he makes friends with the folks who we buy from, and ends up getting really good prices for things (me, on the other hand, have completely not yet gotten the hang of the whole "bargaining" thing!).Anyways, in the midst of it all, we stopped for lunch at a little restaurant belonging to his relative. It's just a little open air kitchen under the trees, but because Richard is a relative, they gave us a little table and two chairs on a patio in the back - it was nice to not be stared at through the whole lunch. It's not exactly the type of place white girls frequent, so people were a little surprised to see me there!
The food was delicious! We had some nice fried beef, a little pasta on the side with some mince meat, and some beans with some goat cheese, onions and tomatoes. All eaten communally from the same plate, scooped up with bread. The soup was also lovely - a broth made with peanut butter. Yum yum! I love that kind of food. Now that I know Richard's relative's place, I will have to go back again.
And this is a photo of the funeral which kept me awake on Friday night. I took this photo through the fence on Friday evening - doesn't show much, but I didn't want to be too obvious taking photos while spying on them through the fence! But gives you a bit of an idea of what a funeral here looks like! A tent and lots of plastic chairs.On Saturday afternoon, I went out for coffee with a friend of mine, and some of her colleagues, since she was leaving for Nairobi to do some work there for a few months.
I already miss Carrie :( She's the same one I went to Zanzibar with, and we hung out a lot here so I miss her. Bye Carrie! Have fun in Nairobi!So that's my week in a nutshell (at least, more of the non-work aspects of it!).
I must admit, though, today I had a great afternoon, starting to put together a plan and a timetable for a primer workshop that I'm running in a few weeks :) Yahoo for literacy work! I'm getting really excited about it all... and I'm looking forward to working on my plans for the workshop more tomorrow!
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