Amazed

So tomorrow I leave Nairobi to go to Ugunja. Though I am very excited to meet all the people I will be working with, who I am sure will become like a second family to me, I am also very sad to leave Nairobi. The city is so amazing and I love it. I see so much love and generosity here, and so much potential. There are so many things that are frustrating, especially the roads and the unemployment. I can't count the number of people I saw just sleeping at the side of the road, or sitting on the hills beside the highway. Granted today is Sunday so they might not be working, but Michelle's uncle tells me it is a common occurrence. The people are not bored or lazy, they just don't have work. They aren't educated, or there isn't a demand, so they just sit at the side of the road or sleep from lack of food. It is frustrating. I guess homeless people do that in Canada too - it just seems to be more prevalent here.

Today we got to see a sliver of the great Rift Valley. It was breathtaking. It stretches all the way from Malawi to Ethiopia and Eri Trea. Pretty amazing.
I got some jewelery today from a nice Kenyan women named Juliet. I bought a necklace for 800 shillings and she gave me a free bracelet and necklace (800 shillings is about 8 Canadian dollars). So it was a fairly good deal. Yesterday I bought a cell phone, cell credit card, bed net and rope for $75 Canadian dollars. Sweet deal I would say!

Right now I am sitting at a desk at one of the AlJezeera offices here in Kenya. Michelle's uncle is a camera man for them. They have really good news - kind of like the BBC. I will put up a picture of the office whenever I find the cable that connects my camera to my laptop...it is in my luggage somewhere!

Anyways I am off for now, tomorrow at this time I will have settled in to my Ugunja home that I will be at for the next three months! Hard to imagine. But I can say right now that I am pretty sure I am falling in love with Kenya, and am pretty sure I will find a way back here very soon (Sorry mom and dad).

Kwaheri (Goodbye)