Day Five...A Day in the City!

Today was a free day in the city of Nairobi.  I had a girl from the youth group named Mary who was my guide and she took me everywhere!  We started off with a walk through the main shopping streets so we could window shop but trying to navigate through the millions (and I am not exaggerating) of people is very hard.  I have NEVER seen so many people in my life!  You can not look around and not see people.  And most are walking or working selling stuff on the side of the street.  We ate lunch at a place across the street from the city park and I had a chicken wrap and chips (french fries) with Kenyan tomato sauce (ketchup).  It's a light red color, about the same as the inside of a tomato, kinda jelly in texture but really good!  I will def be bringing some of this home.  Then we walked around some more and hopped on a Matatu (public taxi bus) that took us to the Nairobi museum (and should I even tell you I was the only white person on the bus, all 4 times we rode one today and they listen to american rap music). The museum was full of Kenya's history and even included a live snake park!  Then we got on another type of public transportation called Manygus (bigger bus) and headed to a wholesale market where I got to see how they make shoes and flip-flops!  And they are the cute beaded ones everyone is wearing back at home...and they are super cheap so I plan on bringing back a couple pairs!  After walking around the market, and being asked several times if they can shake hands with the white person (I was the only white person out here since it was a small town outside the city), we headed back to Nairobi to meet up with everyone else for dinner.  We ate at the Village Market which is close to the American Embassy so there were a lot more American's eating in there.  We had chinease which was a good change from the Kenyan traditional food we have been eating everyday since we got here. 

Tonight we are preparing our lessons for the Mega Crusade which will start Thursday with the free medical camp (and they are now expecting more than 10,000 people to come since they have been announcing it on most of the radio stations in Nairobi...we heard it tonight and they said Pastor Richard Mungia from the United States, Georgia will be preaching...it was cool to hear it!)  Tomorrow is our last free day so we are going to the Nairobi animal orphange to see all the African animals...I am very excited since I love animals! 

Keep the comments coming...I am so glad so many people are enjoying this blog!  I can't wait to blog after the Crusade and tell you how God is working over here.  I will tell you that on every public transportation vehicle, there is some form of Scripture giving God the glory, honor and praise!  Some say God is Able, Glory be to God, With God all things are possible, etc.  It's really neat to see God being exhaulted in so many places!

Oh yeah, I am also starting to learn the currency ($) here...it's very different than ours...$1 is like 100 shillings here and the hardest part is figuring out the cash (I freak out when I have to pay with a 1000 bill but that is not really a lot of US dollars) but I am learing and I did buy stuff today on my own!  And I went to a cyber cafe today for the first time!

Goodnight / Usiku Mwema

Leslie/ Chiro