Weekend Update

What an amazing weekend! 

Its late and we are all beat. 

So here's what I think I'll do...

...I'm going to do a bullet list of activities various members of our group got to experience with our Kenyan hosts over the last couple days. Hopefully this will serve as a great discussion starter the next time you see one of our team members... 

* Hiked around and climbed a volcanic crater

* Met a grandmother of a Kenyan who shared in Swahili that this was the first white person she had ever met. 

* Enjoyed an interesting dish made of bananas, black eyed peas, and potatoes

* Had a college aged Kenyan rub and touch his hair while he had tea with the family

* Didn't go to Nakuru National Park (Flamingos) because the Non-Kenyan price is $60 per person, Kenyan price - 300 shillings = $4.00 USD

* Watched a Kenyan produced soap opera

* Hiked by the light of the full moon

* Looked at the full moon using the Daystar University's telescope

* Crossed the Equator - Stood in two hemispheres at once

* Bartered with artisans at the Masai Market in downtown Nairobi

* Rode in a Matatu... numerous times (Public transportation - seats 14) However I counted 24 people in the one I rode 

* Stood by and watched as one of our Kenyan hosts argued with a Matatu driver for trying to over charge her American guests for a ride 

* Was mistaken for a local - and tried to act interested as a person spoke to her at length - in Swahili. 

* Taught Kenyan hosts how to play chess

* Drank Mango Juice - from a pop bottle

* Overwhelmed by the gracious generosity and appreciation shown by all of our host families

* Had there hands spit on by an elder (This is a gesture conveying great blessings)

* Saw geysers, hot springs, ostrich, zebra, Thompson's Gazelle, antelope, baboons, warthogs, flamingos, and 8 foot tall ant hills

Thats enough for now - as I said its late, and I may have confused a detail or two, but we really had a great weekend with our Kenyan friends.  Tomorrow we are visiting an AIDS ministry center in the morning, and having a nyamochoma (Goat Roast) tomorrow evening. 

Deo Fisus Labora - Jeff