tomorrow we travel to Embu and other places. we get back to nairobi on friday and then we have one more week here before we tqke our swahili exam and leave for mombasa.
i hope my swahili gets good because we're going to be the first lewis and clark group to do homestay in pemba which is near zanzibar. it'll only be three days but it should be interesting because the adults don't speak english like they do here and also because they are muslim. we're going to have to go get approprite clothes. i'm excited for that.
classes are interesting nd we don't have much homework outside swahili so i have nothing at all to complain about. tomorrow i get to take a real shower because we'll be staying in a hotel. i'm pretty excited.
i've been taking trips on sundays to see my family's families. that's realy cool. last weekend we went to a slum on the outside of nairobi called nairobi where my mom's brothers and sisters live. that is a few of them. she has twelve. yesterday we went to see family out in the country which was really neat. i hadn't seen any of the rural parts of kenya. it wasn't that far out but it was very pretty and different than here. i can't explain what it was like to be in their home. what i can say though is that i met my mom's uncle and he asked me where i was from and i said americ and looked at me and said "but you're not fat." my mom's brother asked me if i wanted to be his second wife. i said no thank you.
that's all i have to report right now. i'm saving up my shillings to buy phone so when i do i'll give you the number so that if you wanna pay international rates you can call me.
i'm glad to hear that the texas clan is all safe. i got really freaked out when i saw the pictures of floods on tv and heard blah blah blah houston texas blah blah galveston and couldn't understand what they were saying. ok gotta go. i'll post again either from the road or when i get back.