... because I haven't updated in several days! Sorry. My excuse is that it's been too cold to blog. Really, it's been cold. Like, I would be surprised if it got to 30C today! And it's been raining most of the day. So it's all muddy and damp everywhere. At the moment (at 8pm), it's 24C in my verandah. I'm sitting here wrapped in a kikoy to keep a bit warm! I love the rainy season!
But it was even colder in Nairobi. I mean, seriously cold. I was sleeping under 3 blankets, and it was beautiful! There's something that comes with sleeping under the heavy blankets which sorta just makes you wake up all refreshed, like you didn't move an inch during the night (which I probably didn't because of the weight of the blankets!). I really feel like I slept well while I was there, even though I had to get up at some seriously un-godly hours so that I could have my breakfast at 7:30am every day. Ridiculous.
After the conference, Jackie and I went into Nairobi to stay at the Mennonite Guesthouse. I highly recommend that guesthouse to anyone - very comfortable, and nice people. Good food, too. And now they have free wireless internet throughout the guesthouse (though it's pretty slow!). And the best part is, it's just a short taxi ride away from two nice malls :) I have to admit, I spent a lot of time in the malls on Saturday and Sunday. It was just so nice to be able to shop and enjoy the cleanliness of everything! I also got to go to a movie (Knight and Day looked like the best thing playing, and it wasn't a bad choice!). I enjoyed a beautiful dish of tiramisu and some nice coffee. I wandered around the book shops and found some good used books that will keep me entertained for the next few little while. Jackie and I also went to the museum of modern art, which had some really interesting bits of art inside. Some of it was a bit, well, modern, for my liking, but a lot of it was really interesting and very enjoyable. Anyway, it was just really nice to do something a little different from the ordinary, you know?
And at the end of each day, I was able to go back to a nice hot shower! Aaahhh... so nice.
And then I also have to admit, it was nice to come back home to Jb, too! Nice to have my own space, my own bed, and my own cat again :) Even nicer because I'm really not swamped with work right now. There seems to be a bit of a "lull" in things this week - no workshops to prepare for or write reports about. No papers to write. Not even any printing deadlines to meet! So there's a few things that have been sitting on the back-burner, waiting for an opportune moment to arrive. And that moment has arrived. But it also means that I can leave the office at 5pm and maybe even have the day off on Saturday! Life is good.
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