Life here has been so great the past week! I'm starting to feel really comfortable here and I love hanging out with my friends. On Saturday, I went to Mamba Village with Fadhili and some of the kids he teaches guitar to. Mamba Village has crocodiles and ostriches and it was really fun. We even held a baby crocodile (pictures coming to facebook eventually...)!! My new favorite place to hang out is the house next door, where Wema, Fadhili, John, Purity, and their parents live. That family is just really great and Wema, Fadhili, John, and Purity are all around my age, so that's really fun! I hung out there on Saturday night after I got back and just talked to Purity about college and life in the US. She is studying Information Technology and is home for a month off right now. On Sunday, I decided to go to church with them since I was supposed to be back by 2pm to go hear Fadhili sing with the Nairobi Gospel Choir. It was a bit hard for me to tell Fred and Alice that I wanted to go to a different church, but oh well. The church service was so great - I really enjoyed dancing and singing to the great music. If I were to live here, that is definitely where I would want to go to church. Wema's dad is the pastor and I felt so comfortable there. I'll try to go again on Sunday, especially since they're having a fundraising Sunday for their new building, but it might be a bit hard to ask for permission again to not go to Candlelight...
Tonight I'm heading off to Mombasa (the coast) for a few days. I'm going with Christine (who lives in the neighborhood) and we'll be staying with her sister. We're going by bus since there was no way I could pay for both of us to fly there...apparently it's a 9 hour drive, but I'm planning on sleeping most of the time. I think we'll mostly just be relaxing and walking around while we're there, but I really don't know. I just thought it would be cool to go to Mombasa.
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