Hi all! Sorry it has been so long since my last post! I hope everyone is doing fine at home! I went to my first dowry party on Saturday! It was the best time I have had in Kenya so far! I have fallen in love with this adorable family next door. They live on the most amazing little farm. Nanjala invited us to be apart of her big day!! We went over when we woke up to just tell her we were awake! We helped prepare the food, serve her family members and she even made me pray (and those of you in my family know that we don't pray out loud in front of big crowds)! Mom, please tell Gama and Granddad, I know we will get an "ayyy" out of that one! ALSO...tell Gama that I killed a chicken! It was crazy and the whole time I was just thinking, "Your grandma will be proud, Your grandma will be proud!" It was really gross, but definitely made the experience more meaningful! It was really cool how we could eat completely off the land. We decided to make her a cake to celebrate. Because we don't have ovens, we cooked it in a bowl of sand. Beat that Brad! You may be good in the kitchen but can you bake a cake with sand? We watched as the men discussed the dowry (not an easy task). It was a really nice way to get to know the family and learn a load about their culture! Jarson (the brother of the couple) is really good about showing us around Kenya and informing us of the reasons behind all of their cultures! We are so incredibly fortunate to have him.
We took him along to Kisumu yesterday so that we did not get the mzungu price. Because we did this, we were also able to take a matatu. We would have never found out way to the market without him. We saved over half the price because we took a matatu! I can't even begin to count how much money he saved us on souvenirs. It was a really long day. We decided that we are going to take a matatu to Kakamega next weekend to volunteer at a street children school. Hopefully we can check out the rain forest while we are there! Other than that nothing major is going on. I have been eaten alive by mosquitos (or maybe bed bugs). Luckily, non of us have gotten Malaria yet! Tomorrow is Madaraka Day, a national holiday! I am getting very different meanings on what this holiday is for. I have come to a very uncertain conclusion that it is their real independence day from Great Britain. They do not call it their independence day. The day they call their independence day is the day they were named a republic government. Still very confused. I will do more research when I have time! So anywho....we are making pizza (because Nanjala has requested it) and we are decorating it with tomatoes, green pepper and black olive to make the Kenyan flag! We are very excited about it, I hope it turns out well. I will write again when I have more time. We are off to do more errands around Bungoma town.
Lots of love!
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GOOD JOB BRADLEY! You're right...I probably wouldn't be able to cook a cake in sand. Sounds like a challenge on the beach when you get back though! We went to the Memorial Day Parade today, and are on our way to Michigan City to shop now! Got some good pictures for you with my new camera...but mom's computer won't support the uploading software so it'll have to wait until tonight when I get home to upload them to mine. UNLESS...you wanna give us the password to your Mac...then I can do it now.
ReplyDeleteDream on Dweeb! HAHA! Maybe I will give it to Mom later!
ReplyDeletekristie sue!!!!! cake in sand?!?!?! so sweeeet! sounds like you are having a good time besudes the bed bugs! dont bring them home! I think you would do very well in the health proffesion.... maybe you could teach tiny children about health!
ReplyDeleteanywhoooo you said you wanted some american goings-on... sorry to report that i have a pretty dull life... sittin here with luna... she misses auntie kristie verry much. Ian and I are doing alright though we decided not to get a dog. many trips to the pound and not finding "the one" we got discouraged which gave us time to think it through and out apt will be so small next year... we just decided it wasn't a good time. heres a crazy story!!! so our house is falling apart right. everything is broken so we call the landlord. num is disconnected. other things break we call again blh blah anyway 2 months go by we can get a hold of him. we go to theoffice... which is on the outskirt of town. sign is painted over and there isnt a soul to be seen. so we call the owners of the house (who i guess just hand it over to this compan to lease out on accounta the owners live out of state) they had no idea it was going on. they told us not to pay rent until we figure it out. suprise suprise here comes mr landlord... and he's pissed that we got him in trouble with the owners! so he yells at us about the house being messy and how dare we talk to the owner it isnt as if he went out of business... ust shut the phone off and closed down the office... we must be crazy.... oh susan. what is wrong with people?
anyway wow what a long and dredfully boring story..... but. its the best i got! haha hope that makes you feel the drawl of the good ole US of A! hahahaha well I guess I could have told a story abou WildCare... you know I have an internship there over the summer yeah? the rehabilitation center? yes.. I should have gone with that! oh well... a story for next time. i hope by then to have baby opossums! I hope to foster them :o) youre going to love them!
I love you sooooo freaking much! come home safe to me... oh! and i know kate is plannin a baseball game trip... which is awesome... but i aslo wanted to know if you might want to go on a road trip?!? if there time this summer.... I know what youll prolly wanna do is just sit home for a long time after your trip.... but I thought id throw it out there~! ok i missssssss you! <3 SuSaN and LuNa~!