Week 13

March 22-29

There isn't a lot to write about this week, other than the rainy season is officially here. Everyday it pours more than I have ever seen it pour before. Actually, it usually rains at night, which is actually worse for one main reason. When it's night we keep the lights on in the living room and kitchen where we usually are. But there are these horrible termites with big wings that come out during the rainy nights and they are attracted to light. Somehow, every night, dozens of these bugs find their way into our apartment, swim in our cups of water, one killed itself when it flew into the water I was boiling for pasta. What's weird is there wings all fall off so our kitchen floor gets completely covered in these giant wings. Until their wings fall off the bugs flap around making the loudest most annoying noise ever and all of 5 of us in the apartment run around with shoes trying to kill them. It's pretty amusing, but mostly just disgusting.

It doesn't usually rain during the day, but of course last Sunday when I was walking through Kangemi to go visit my kids it started pouring and I decided to run the rest of the way, in the mean time losing a shoe to vast amounts of mud, which I thought was really hilarious. I had gone to Shangilia that day to do face paint for the kids, but with the rain I couldn't do that, so we jut played under the stage reading books and watching the kids do acrobats.

Wednesday, Gracie was diagnosed with a fungal infection! I don't know exactly what it is, but I went in to talk to the doctor who just said its a fungus that makes her skin patchy and rough. It doesn't really itch her but her least favorite part is the medicine. After she took the medicine on Thursday she walked around spitting everywhere and trying to get the taste out of her mouth by wiping her tongue on her dress.

Friday we had class with KJ and the speaker of the weak was pretty awesome. We met the graffiti artists called Solo 7. Solo 7 is the man who went around Kibera when the election violence was at its worse and painted dozens of peace messages all over the slum. He has gotten so much media as a result of it.

The week end has just been a bit of work. Our grants are due on Tuesday, so I've been working on that quite a bit and still have some stuff to finish up.

I leave 4 weeks from Monday, but my last week in the region is going to be spent travelling around Uganda and Rwanda with Carrie, who has been my closest friend on the program since the start. We are planning the itinerary this week and I'm getting more and more excited!

Until next week!