Today is a relaxing day for my group. Most of the group is out on a hike toward a beautiful waterfall. The rest of the crew is feeling slightly under the weather and has retreated to a cyber cafe.
So far we have been working very hard with our Nakuru Jumpers creating pod casts and the start of digital stories; we have also begun working on the book we want to create that will illustrate the impact of HIV/AIDs on teens. We went to the Nakuru Youth Center yesterday to take photos. Our Leader Robin is working on creating a Flicker account where we can post all of our photos for everyone and the world to view since it is too difficult to post them on TIG.
Last night the Hawaii group was invited to go to a dinner at the homes of the Nakuru Jumpers. I went with Mercy and one of the adult leaders Dennis. I was able to meet Mercy's mother and her younger sister. We sat down to dinner and ate a delicious meal. We enjoyed Ugali (this resembles America's version of grits), a traditional beef stew, Terere (this resembled spinach laulau) which was so good and full of vitamins which we all need and we ate mokimo which is a mashed potato with maze and green bean dish. I learned that it was okay to eat with my hands and to not be shy about it; I felt very much at home. I was so full at the end of dinner, since the mother kept adding more food to my plate.
We then sat down to coffee and chatted the rest of the night. It was such a wonderful meal and night I went home full and sleepy from our long day.
I am getting very used to all of the Cultural aspects of Kenyan and I am enjoying all of them. I don’t want to leave and I am so glad that I still have three more weeks to spend here. Those weeks will be full of photos, friends and ugali. Haha. Well more next time.