These are just some random pictures from my stay in Nairobi. I have had a very good opportunity to rest and my neck is almost completely healed. Mission accomplished! I start the Kenya course in a couple of days.









This grandmother/great grandmother/ great great grandmother is really old. She doesn't have any teeth, she uses a cane and she is so old she doesn't speak any Swahili or English. However, when it came time for all the women to dance and sign a song, this woman got up and started signing and dancing. No, I am not joking. An African next to me told me that in Swahili they say, "Dancing always makes African women young." I guess it is true!

These boys were laying out in the grass after a church service. They were very shy and I had to try about 10 times to get a picture of them. They were trying so hard not to smile no matter what sort of crazy things I was doing to get them to look at the camera.

I had the opportunity to go shopping for some meat a couple days ago. There is something about watching a man use a saw to cut up half of an unrefrigerated (for several days), fly covered cow that makes you loose your appetite for meat for a while.

This is a picture of me at the celebration we went to outside of a Nairobi. It was really cold. I guess the 'winter' temperatures plus the high altitude combine for some really cold weather. I was freezing even though I was wearing my SVC fleece. You can't see my neck in this picture but it is almost completely back to normal.