Week in Review

Well my third week of work has flown by! Things are becoming quite busy on the work front, which is good as it makes the work day go by and certainly makes things feel productive.

The other reason things have been so busy is because I have been out pretty much every night. There are so many things to do in Nairobi. Monday night I went with some friends to the Goethe Institute to listen to a German Jazz Band that was in town. It was really a great concert and half way through I thought, “this is so strange to be sitting in Africa, listening to a German Jazz band”. Tuesday night, Dana and I checked out the Mountain Club of Kenya- unfortunately we picked a bad night to go as everyone had gotten together the weekend before for a big camping trip and festivities. The Mountain Club of Kenya has been in existence since 1932 and they seem to be fairly active on the mountain climbing and hiking scene. We shall see what becomes of that.

Wednesday was a chill night of supper with Sandra and last night was Salsa dancing at this bar called “Pavement”. The salsa was great!! Really fun to watch people go dance and there were some major experts there. Dana finally got me to go up and said “Have you ever done Aerobics?” and I said “Yeah…”- she said “Just do the step forward and step back as you would do in Step Aerobics”- it was amazing! She was right- I managed to keep up with the tempo just pretending it was Aerobics :)

So all in all there are many things to do in the city and of course to do outside of the city. I am looking forward to the 3 day weekend coming up October 20 as I plan to get out of town to do a bit of traveling- possibly to a lake nearby that is located on a smaller game reserve.

There will be lots of pictures to show on Monday morning as I am going to the Giraffe Centre on Saturday- a tourist trap where you get to feed and pet giraffes… should be an adventure!

Sunday is a big shopping day for me as I have about 20 people coming for a potluck Canadian Thanksgiving supper on Monday night (Tuesday is a holiday). Basically the invite list was "I met you... and now you are invited!"