Last weekend- January 18 and 19
On Saturday, lots of volunteers and I met at the Junction at 10:30 for a fun filled day in Massai land. We would be playing soccer against the night school students and a few other Massai people in their village.
This time we took a car rather than a mutatu and piki-piki, but the ride was quiet, not as fun and adventurous as the motorcycle ride.
It took some time but we finally got the game started. I was a bit intimidated to play soccer with a bunch of Kenyans so I signed up as a defense sub. I played for about 15 minutes and I kicked the ball three times...I actually helped keep the ball away!! I was very proud of myself. The first game we tied, but that's because they were being nice to us - haha. The Kenyans were laughing at us as we played because we were terrified of them. Haha. It was lots of fun.
I could only eat the chopati for lunch, everything else has meat in it. I figured I wouldn't be able to eat much so I brought some snacks. There were a lot of volunteers I hadn't met before and when we were figuring out that almost all the food was meat, I was telling people I was a vegetarian and one woman turns to me with a plate of all the food served (including meat) says, "I'm vegetarian, too, but like..." She got me so mad! I responded by saying that I'm vegetarian for a reason and I'm not going to eat the food. I brought food for myself. It's not a big deal if I can't eat their food. She ended up apologizing, but I found it so rude that she was judging me for keeping to my vegetarianism. There was another woman that was rude to us and yelling at us to turn music off instead of asking nicely. Her tone of voice was so unnecessary. Their rudeness definitely had an effect on the day.
After lunch was a welcoming ceremony and a time for the two night school graduates to have a few words. They are the first graduates of night school finishing primary school in their late 20s.
We played another game and obviously the Massai won (I didn't play this time). The rain was coming so we headed back to Nairobi.
We ate pasta AND SALAD for dinner. Haven't had salad in so long, it was wonderful. I did inventory of all the products I'm taking home to sell and right in the middle of it all, the power went out. Flashlights came out, I started to pack a little then the power came back on! It probably went out because of the thunderstorm. Finally the lights came back on. We said goodbye to a fellow volunteer going home to the states and watched some movies. A relaxing last night.
Sunday Jan 19- the last day
Woke up, showered, relaxing and packed for the rest of the day. Heading to junction to do some final work for PWG while I'm still in Kenya.
My flight is at 12:40 am. Nairobi, Brussels, DC and spending time with Bev, then dad is picking me up at the Binghamton airport at 11:30 pm.
What a ride and an amazing and enlightening 3 weeks.
On Saturday, lots of volunteers and I met at the Junction at 10:30 for a fun filled day in Massai land. We would be playing soccer against the night school students and a few other Massai people in their village.
This time we took a car rather than a mutatu and piki-piki, but the ride was quiet, not as fun and adventurous as the motorcycle ride.
It took some time but we finally got the game started. I was a bit intimidated to play soccer with a bunch of Kenyans so I signed up as a defense sub. I played for about 15 minutes and I kicked the ball three times...I actually helped keep the ball away!! I was very proud of myself. The first game we tied, but that's because they were being nice to us - haha. The Kenyans were laughing at us as we played because we were terrified of them. Haha. It was lots of fun.
I could only eat the chopati for lunch, everything else has meat in it. I figured I wouldn't be able to eat much so I brought some snacks. There were a lot of volunteers I hadn't met before and when we were figuring out that almost all the food was meat, I was telling people I was a vegetarian and one woman turns to me with a plate of all the food served (including meat) says, "I'm vegetarian, too, but like..." She got me so mad! I responded by saying that I'm vegetarian for a reason and I'm not going to eat the food. I brought food for myself. It's not a big deal if I can't eat their food. She ended up apologizing, but I found it so rude that she was judging me for keeping to my vegetarianism. There was another woman that was rude to us and yelling at us to turn music off instead of asking nicely. Her tone of voice was so unnecessary. Their rudeness definitely had an effect on the day.
After lunch was a welcoming ceremony and a time for the two night school graduates to have a few words. They are the first graduates of night school finishing primary school in their late 20s.
We played another game and obviously the Massai won (I didn't play this time). The rain was coming so we headed back to Nairobi.
We ate pasta AND SALAD for dinner. Haven't had salad in so long, it was wonderful. I did inventory of all the products I'm taking home to sell and right in the middle of it all, the power went out. Flashlights came out, I started to pack a little then the power came back on! It probably went out because of the thunderstorm. Finally the lights came back on. We said goodbye to a fellow volunteer going home to the states and watched some movies. A relaxing last night.
Sunday Jan 19- the last day
Woke up, showered, relaxing and packed for the rest of the day. Heading to junction to do some final work for PWG while I'm still in Kenya.
My flight is at 12:40 am. Nairobi, Brussels, DC and spending time with Bev, then dad is picking me up at the Binghamton airport at 11:30 pm.
What a ride and an amazing and enlightening 3 weeks.
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