So things are going well! I am doing great for the most part. | came into Nairobi for the weekend and met up with sara for my final weekend here in Kenya, ok well full weekend! We met up at Westgate Mall of course for coffee and a break from living in the outskirts of Nairobi, which in case you were wondering means no showers, and the same yummy foods i have been eating since i got here! So i enjoyed my first real cup of black coffee at Dormans coffee house in the Mall since i got here! IT was AMAZING! After coffee we headed to the home of heaven...The Volunteer House and Charity the most amazing host mom ever! When we got there we found out there was another group of about 6 staying there as well because one of their friends was leaving the next day and they all came in for a fun dinner in the Westlands...(just another area of niceness here in nairobi). So me and sara decided to head out for a yummy MEXICAN food dinner! It was so much fun and i had guacamole and it was so delicious! Me and sara both orded the veggie fajitas.
After dinner all 10 or so of us headed to a bar and went dacning and enjoyed a few beers. Here is where i met Austin who is from houston (a volunteer here) who lives in dallas. Yes you read that right. Austin from Houston lives in dallas. He is a student at SMU and we had a fun conversation amongst ourselves about texas, and living there etc. He knew of the domes and of italy and waxahachie which i found odd for some reason but i guess its not to odd! Then after our convo we all decided to go to Gypsys another bar down the street some actually made it there adn some headed hom seeing how it was 2 a.m. already and apparently bars dont close here! EVER! haha....so me and chris, and sara hitched a ride with some guy that chris new in the back of his truck! it was like the old days when i lived in italy, except so much different becuase we were in the middle of a city and i was so sure that we were going to get pulled over but then i remember we were in kenya...we are white...we do pretty much as we please kinda sad that you can get away with so much!
after gypsys, me and sara finally headed home for some sleep!
Saturday morning, me and sara headed to the Masai market where i did some major shopping again (yes i am out of control and a masai market addict...i wonder if they have rehad for this). I LOVE BARGAINING! i got some amazing souveniers today and some major deals! i get better at it each time i go. A couple of the sales men even remembered me from before and didnt want to help me bcause i am too good at bargaining! Today however was extremly hot for some reason so me and sara left and headed for lunch at another amazing coffee house where i had an amazing milkshake (choco banana)! YUMMY!!! Then sara needed to head into tuskys (local grocer) for a few items but i decided to sit outside while she went in becuase of the craziness taht place can hold! BUt it was an intersting experience to sit outside on the sidewalk and watch kenyas local pass by. Then headed back to our temporary heavan we like to call home away from home!
Then......THE SICKNESS came over me like nothing i have ever experienced! i started to feel extremly sharp pains in my stomach and my sides and ache all over my body! so i though maybe a nap would help....i was wrong! i began throwing up and cramping more and more and i was so unsure what was wrong. After about 4 hours i started to THINK i felt better so me and sara and three other cute new volunteers that live at the volunteer house permantley went to a delicious brazilian steakhouse for dinner. THen it all began again! the cramping intense pains and throwing up in a public toilet! It probably has been the lowest point in my trip. let me just remind you how lovely public bathrooms are here! THEY ARENT! they smell and are so dirty! But i dealt with it and tried so hard to enjoy my 2000 shilling dinner! Mostly just drank water and then we decided it was time for us to go...and headed back through the darkness to cathc a matatu. which in its own event was so interesting. We decided to split up so we could fit in a matatu. matatus at night arent the best idea but what can ya do! so we split up and got in our matatu where i then had two girls sitting in my lap so we could fit. i have issues with matatus getting so crowded so i stared out the window and tried to concentrate on the pain i was already feeling! haha....then when we finally got to our placement i got out and tried to pay the matatu conductor as we swayed back and forth from his level of drunkedness! it made for an intersting night thats for sure! Fianlly home i crashed on the bed where i cried and laughed off and on for the night! I know sounds terrible but i over all had an amazing weekend and now its sunday and i have ONE WEEK left! I am in shock and denial a little that i have so little time left. But i am ready to head home and see my family and Zack and of course my adorable nieces!
I will write again soon....and i will be home soon as well!
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