A Week
I know it's been a while since I've posted, but I haven't had so much time to be on the interweb this week. Therefore, you'll get a nice recap of a nice week. Last Sunday I watched Super Bowl XLI, cheering on the Colts like all sane people would. The kicker is - here, it was on at 2am and wasn't over until about 6:30am. Since I had to teach yoga at 8am Monday morning, there was no sleeping. Did I care? Of course not! I didn't realize how much I missed watching my sports until I got to see that game, so there was no way I was leaving before it was over.
One of the days I ate some Japanese food at a restaurant at Safari Park, and it was very good (my friend Megan interns at the Hotel and knew our chef), and we got free veggie tempura and ice cream. However, Deirdre, I think you will be most appreciative of this, it was not like Japanese food that I've had. Sure, there was chicken and rice and it was cooked in front of us. Yes, there was the salad with ginger dressing and some miso soup. No, it was not super-duper salty - and therein lies the problem. It wasn't saturated with soy sauce, and there wasn't a giant mountain of food on the plate...it was actually a normal portion! This is why it was very abnormal, but the restaurant was nice and company was great.
On Friday Kathleen and I spent the day driving around with David Mwambari and a couple of his friends because he was taking Kathleen to some travel agencies for when her parents come to visit. Then he invited us over to his house for dinner. We bought supplies from Nakumatt and then went to his house, and Kathleen, Bailey and I cooked! We got to cook! It was such a wonderful wondeful time, because I miss my kitchen. Also, we made pasta! Pasta is not in abundance here, and I miss it terribly, so to get to cook pasta was so wonderful. We even made garlic bread! The best part, though, was the conversation. It was some of the most interesting (and heavy) conversation I've had here. We covered a wide gambit of topics, from relationship dynamics to identity crises. David and his two friends are very intelligent and interesting, so it was a really great discussion. David is an incredible guy because he, being from Rwanda, actually experienced the genocide and the struggles that come from that. He has also traveled all over the world, including several trips to the US to speak to schools - he spoke at Harvard for heaven sakes! What a life, and only in his 20s!
Saturday we actually got to eat pasta again (so wonderful, I tell you!) at a restaurant called Mediterraneo at the Nakumatt Junction in Karen (rich town). Pasta and yeasty bread! Then later that night we got a huge group together and went to F2, a club in the city. This was my second clubbing night since I've been here (I know, you all know me, don't do the clubbing very often), and it was the best time I've ever had going out to a club. We brought some really great guys out with us for molestation-free dancing and protection, and the club was very nice and surprisingly not smokey! They even played a good variety of music! yay! We were out until sooo late though - probably got back around 5am, but it was well worth it.
Today has been very relaxing - Kathleen, Megan, Shappel, and I actually walked out to the track where there is a grassy area and no people so that we could tan a bit since we're going to Zanzibar soon and would rather not a)roast and look like lobsters and develop skin cancer, and b)scare people with the white and the tan lines
P.S. this is also a gloating moment for those of you freezing in the US - because I was laying out in my swimsuit getting tan and hot - and it was great! Take that, winter weather!
One of the days I ate some Japanese food at a restaurant at Safari Park, and it was very good (my friend Megan interns at the Hotel and knew our chef), and we got free veggie tempura and ice cream. However, Deirdre, I think you will be most appreciative of this, it was not like Japanese food that I've had. Sure, there was chicken and rice and it was cooked in front of us. Yes, there was the salad with ginger dressing and some miso soup. No, it was not super-duper salty - and therein lies the problem. It wasn't saturated with soy sauce, and there wasn't a giant mountain of food on the plate...it was actually a normal portion! This is why it was very abnormal, but the restaurant was nice and company was great.
On Friday Kathleen and I spent the day driving around with David Mwambari and a couple of his friends because he was taking Kathleen to some travel agencies for when her parents come to visit. Then he invited us over to his house for dinner. We bought supplies from Nakumatt and then went to his house, and Kathleen, Bailey and I cooked! We got to cook! It was such a wonderful wondeful time, because I miss my kitchen. Also, we made pasta! Pasta is not in abundance here, and I miss it terribly, so to get to cook pasta was so wonderful. We even made garlic bread! The best part, though, was the conversation. It was some of the most interesting (and heavy) conversation I've had here. We covered a wide gambit of topics, from relationship dynamics to identity crises. David and his two friends are very intelligent and interesting, so it was a really great discussion. David is an incredible guy because he, being from Rwanda, actually experienced the genocide and the struggles that come from that. He has also traveled all over the world, including several trips to the US to speak to schools - he spoke at Harvard for heaven sakes! What a life, and only in his 20s!
Saturday we actually got to eat pasta again (so wonderful, I tell you!) at a restaurant called Mediterraneo at the Nakumatt Junction in Karen (rich town). Pasta and yeasty bread! Then later that night we got a huge group together and went to F2, a club in the city. This was my second clubbing night since I've been here (I know, you all know me, don't do the clubbing very often), and it was the best time I've ever had going out to a club. We brought some really great guys out with us for molestation-free dancing and protection, and the club was very nice and surprisingly not smokey! They even played a good variety of music! yay! We were out until sooo late though - probably got back around 5am, but it was well worth it.
Today has been very relaxing - Kathleen, Megan, Shappel, and I actually walked out to the track where there is a grassy area and no people so that we could tan a bit since we're going to Zanzibar soon and would rather not a)roast and look like lobsters and develop skin cancer, and b)scare people with the white and the tan lines
P.S. this is also a gloating moment for those of you freezing in the US - because I was laying out in my swimsuit getting tan and hot - and it was great! Take that, winter weather!