Two weeks left

Two weeks left.....

Yesterday was exactly two weeks left...yes on valentines day which was spent with my friend martha, so not alone which is good because apparently Kenyans take their love holidays seriously here.  Me and martha were in town on her last day here shopping around at the Masai market and there were people all over Nairobi selling flowers, teddy bears, etc.  It was insane, i couldnt believe how many people were carrying the stuff around with them.  I even got a rose with my chicken sandwich at lunch.  Was so funny. 

I had a good weekend keeping Martha company on her last weekend here.  She left sat night at 11:30.  I was secretly a little jealous of her.  I am starting to get antsy to see my friends and family and of course Zack!  But we had alot of fun.

Friday night i came into town to meet her and headed over to the Westgate Mall in the westlands area which is where most of the rich people live! We had dinner at a place called Art Caffe and enjoyed a nice dinner outside on their patio.  Then went into the Nakumatt there were its obvious white people shop becuase they had SKITTLES and Original PRINGLES never thought i would care so much about them but we went crazy and bought some junk food and headed back to the volunteer house where we ate junk food all night and drank fanta and watched a movie.  it was so much fun!  We even had the volunteer house to ourselves (where martha lived while here) becuase all her roommates were on safari this weekend and so we just gave Charity the house mom the night off. I got to sleep in a queen size bed all alone and it was the best night sleep i have had since i have been here! 

Saturday morning we headed into nairobi where we shopped and kept eachother company until she had to head back to finish her packing.....and i went home to my homestay....

which by the way is much scarier. 

We have running water ...barely there is no water pressure really and the water is FREEZING.  We are told not to even think about drinking the water it comes straight from teh sweage...eww!  My bed is veryyyy uncomfortable but doable.  Its like a foam pad so if you sit in one spot and try to move you fall back to where you were sitting before becuase the mattress is now caved in.  So it makes it hard to sleep through the night.  Our room is TINY and there are four of us sharing the space and no where to put anything so everything i brought with me is hanging out on the end of my bottom bunk which leaves little room for sleeping! My new area is called Mirema its a slum outside of Nairobi but its not to bad compared to Kibera.  It just smells and the water running through the streets is filled with trash and very dirty.  There are also lots of mosquittos here at our new place too so that bug spray mom gave me is almost gone! But thats good its one less thing i have to pack ont eh way home!

Two weeks everyone and i am home!  Cant wait to see and hear from everyone!