JAMBO

Back again and guess what... it's still raining!

I had to go out yesterday and buy a raincoat AND an umbrella and they are getting lots of use! We met up with the other volunteers, Crystal, Cameron, Kelsey and Christina and went to the giraffe sanctuary yesterday and it was a very new experience for me as we caught a matatu! The matatu is kind of like a really crazy mini bus where people squeeze in and hop on and off, you just need to know what number to catch and then its alright, and it is MUCH cheaper than a taxi! We got to feed the giraffes with their freakishly long tongues and then gave them giraffe kisses where u put the pellets on your lips and let them lick it off. I think i was the only one of the six of us who refused to do it, I decided to watch and take photos instead :P I know... boring, but the idea of giraffe slobber didn't really excite me!

On our way home we stopped by Nakumatt in Karen, a big store that pretty much sells everything, and bought exercise books for all the kids as well as pencils for the classroom. We also got some balls for them to play with since they have a huge oval that they don't tend to play on. I took the soccer ball outside when we got back and as soon as the kids saw they ALL charged over to grab it and run off and play. As you can imagine they were all MUCH better than me, though the boys still had lots of fun laughing at me when i couldn't get the ball from them!

In the evening we had plans to go to dinner with two Australian sisters, Hannah and Laura and their friend Sarah, who had been in Kenya for a while already (so knew alot more than we did) and funny enough the sisters were from Sydney and went to Brigidine.....Randwick. Mama was cooking japatti (dont know how to spell it) and insisted we try some before we went out and all the kids were so excited as japatti is a treat for them. It is like a crepe thing and was really nice. We went to a Cuban restaurant in Westlands which was a nice change from the food we had been eating!

We decided to brave town today and caught a Matatu all the way in to city centre and made our way to the museum only to find out it was closed soooooo we went shopping instead :) The markets are a tiring place, Will i need you here to do the bargaining for me!!!!

School tomorrow so I think we are going to help out in a different classroom and see what that is like. Everything is still very new, especially at the orphanage so we're not too sure what to do besides helping the teachers with the little kids.

No more men knocking on our doors which is good, although yesterday we heard loud bangs and all the kids screamed and ran up shouting 'guns! guns!' so Florence and I jumped up and walked outside to be told straight away that it was just an electrical surge haha!

Anyway I think it is time to find our way home, which is actually proving to be quite difficult! Not many cab drivers know the orphanage and we are finding it especially hard to describe it and got very lost last night! Ha ha we drove past the orphanage but Florence and I didn't recognise it in the dark. I think we need to invest in a map!