Shikamoo! (a greeting that literally means 'I hold your feet')

Some questions have been brought to my attention. I would love to address some of them.

Homestay Family

Baba (Father) is a teacher and a pastor
Mama (Mother) is a teacher
Kaka's (Brothers) consist of Mumo who is 3 and extremely active and Steve who is about 13 or 14. He is finishing up primary school which is equivalent to the American 8th grade.
Dada's (Sisters) consist of Vivi who is 6, Reba who is 8, Kavila who is about 11, and two others who I haven't really met because they are at boarding school. They are both graduating this year and have an extremely important exam beginning now.

I have a room to my self. It contains one bed, a chair, and a small coffee table. It is pretty cramped, especially since I keep my bike in there. The room is basically the size of two beds put together. Due to the size I only took one bag of luggage plus my backpack to the home. The other piece of luggage stays at the training hub and is basically available one day a week in case I need anything.

Food

The typical foods consist of:

- chapati (like a thick tortilla)
- ugali (a think corn paste that is served almost daily ... it has basically no taste and you could probably build a house out of the stuff it is so dense)
- nyama (meat...usually goat, or chicken, or cow)
- sukuma wiki (some green vegetable)
- wali (rice)
- kabechi (cabbage)
- viazi (potatoes)

Those are the major players. It really doesn't vary from the foods mentioned above, but sometimes we mix it up by having ugali with sukumi wiki, or ugali with kabechi, or ugali with kuku (chicken).

As for drinks I probably drink about 10 cups of chai a day (hot tea with milk). Everybody drinks the stuff and loves it. Even kids. We also drink soda. We have Coca Cola, Fanta, and Sprite.

TV

People were curious as to what shows they have in Kenya. We only get one channel on our TV so we don't have too many options. Most of the shows we watch are about 10 years behind America. We watch:

Walker Texas Ranger
Oprah
The Bold and the Beautiful
WWF Wrestling
Makutano Junction (a Kenyan soap opera...its pretty bad)
Release the Lion (a game show)
Mind Your Language (a really old British show)
plus some other shows in Chinese, or from South Africa. Fun stuff.

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To close, I was peed on by a bat the other night. He stays right over my bed and I put 2 and 2 together. I also realized it wasn't the first time. So now I keep a towel on top of my mosquito net to keep any more drops from reaching me. You gotta love this place!