More Dancing

Best part of the day: Wakeing up and sitting on the roof of the building. Just listenig to all of the city sounds, looking at the hazy background covered in trees, and trying to remember I'm in Africa.

Quote of the day:

Teju: "I threw up Australia"

So I am typing this paper listening to eminem. Who would of known he came out with a new CD? Who would have known that it would be playing in Nairobi at 8:40 in the morning. This day was very non eventful, but I got to actually meet a few people so that was exciting. Highlights:


I went to a church service this morning. It was so much fun. It was an experience because everyone was stareing at me in the beggining.They just kept singing and dancing for like 20 minutes. And I just joined in with the fun. They were all shakeing my hands and saying caribou (welcome). I had to leave the service before it ended, and I danced out.
Suprisingly, people started laughing at me as I left. It just goes to show that the Elliott Dance is truly unique. It is not just some international rip off. No one is ready for it from any country.

Teju and Paul were not able to find their luggage and they are going again today in hopes of maybe recovering it. Teju got really sick on top of it, so thats a major bummer.

I found a store that sold Legos. I went in, and it ended up being fake legos (Kingdom Blocks), but I was still so close.

We keep eating India food, its really weird that there is so much India food here.

We met one of Ashley's contacts who was a producer for a famous music group in Kenya. He told us all about Kenya, its music, etc. It was much like a PLC experiential weekend. He told us that sometimes the buses can be hijacked so that will be interesting to say the least as we leave on bus to Arusha.

BJ made a friend ( a begger) who followed him throughout today. He just kept saying "can I have some money" over and over again.

I went over to the super market and checked out all of their clothers (I plan on changing my entire wardrobe to African). I kept looking at all the bright colored shirts, but the staff kept laughing at me. Apparantly the bright clothes are for woman. The men's clothes are all Americanized, how boring. I did that 3 times.

I've started reading Reconstruction of Christianity. And writing 2-3 comments on each of the page topics. Thats been fun.

I can't wait to see more natural Africa at this point. As BJ puts it, "we are stuck in a Prison here".

Philosiphically, I am at the crisis of loneliness. When you are surrounded by PLCers who are all at the top of their game socially I realize how seperate I am from the world. It could also be that I am in Africa. None the less a sense of solitude grows within me. I think I want to become part of the African community, but there are many barriers in the way. Hopefully, when we get to Mr. Smilies village this will change :). I need to regrasp my desire for change. As that was why I originally came to Africa. To really understand who I am. We'll see.

We are leaving the hostel today, so I don't know when I will be online again, but please do leave messages. They mean a lot to me. And to answer Tyler's question: Yes, Ben always dresses nice.