Now that i've been here for more than a few days I've discovered a couple new places. Starting with one I will certainly avoid is WIMPY! It seems to be Africa's McDonalds and I've never heard a negative word about it from an African but I can tell you that I'm not sure their burgers are anything close to beef. South Africa had them everywhere and today I discovered one in downtown Nairobi. The other which will take a little more self control is a place called java, only a 10 minute walk from the office but on the way from my house. Anyway, I was taking an American who had just arrived for the World Social Forum around and Bridget suggested the place for a caffeine fix as Allison had only arrived the night before and was feeling jet lagged. Allison had an iced mochacino and I had an iced hazelnut latte and both were amazing...better and bigger than any starbucks drink and cheaper. I will definitely be going back.
On a completely different note, everyone seems to want to know about the weather so here you have it. During the day the temperature is between +25 and +30. In the mornings and evenings it does cool off because of the altitude but I still don't think its actually cold. Closer to the end of my trip the rainy season starts and the nights do get cold they tell me and by then I'll probably have aclimatized enough that I'll feel its cold as well.
My other adventure for the week has been registering for the world social forum. Allison and I went in to town yesterday so that she could confirm her registration and so that I could register. After being sent to a few wrong lines I got to where I had to pay. The way you paid was by buying celtel minutes (my phone provider is safaricom) which meant I to switch my phone, buy 7300 shillings worth of credits and then send that by text message so that I could get my pin number which they use to register you into the program. After waiting almost an hour I left to keep trying to send the message on my own because their line was busy, but it never went to I went back today, waited another hour and then finally was registered...nothing is as easy as it should be here. Yesterday after I had hoped to register Allison and I were going to go up to the top of the registration building, the second highest in East Africa to see the city but just wanted to get out of there after waiting so long so instead we went to a giraffe park which was much more fun. We got to feed them and walk around a bit. I'll try to post some pictures once I get them off my camera.
That's all the excitement I have to report for now. I'm feeling more adjusted now which is nice, I'm feeling a little tired of being somewhat dependent on others for basic things. The only thing is that routine is constantly changing here but somethings I'm hoping will stay the same.
stephanie
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I am so sorry that you have found a Wimpy near you. You have my condolences.
I hope you have a good time, and try not to consume too much coffee. I will be praying for you.
I echo the sentiments on the Wimpy burger. That was a horror I had forgotten about SA until now.
heyyyy steph,
i think i saw the wimpy burger in nairobi when we were there. i do recall warning my entire family that the place would do bad things to us "white folk".
anyways, this all is sounding pretty great. awesome stephhhhh.
love
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