26/10: Nakuru

Today I woke up to a new country, but it didn’t seem all that different. We got up early so that we could go to Nakuru in good time and have the city induction. Sarah, the other volunteer, have lost her baggage and she wasn’t feeling very well. But off we went with the matatu (basically a dala-dala) to Nakuru. It took us about 2.5 to 3 hours to get there. Once there we went straight to the office for our induction. I would have preferred to go to the family first, but it was good to get my Kenyan number because there is no more money on my Tanzanian. There is no where near as many volunteers here as in Tanzania, only about 15-20 I think. Sarah was still not feeling very well so we hurried a bit to get her to her Kenyan home. She is from the Netherlands and was on a straight flight from Amsterdam so it is weird that she lost her baggage. One dollar is under a hundred Kenyan shillings, she was so confused that even though we had been speaking about it she only took out 1000 shillings – a bit more than 10 dollars. After that we drove her home first and then me. The first thing I noticed was that there is a garden with grass, flowers and fake logs as decoration. Compared to the concrete garden that I’m used to this was quite something. I have my own room with a toilet and shower that presumably has hot water! It is quite incredible. I then relaxed until dinner. There is another volunteer living there, Charlene from France, she went out to dinner, but I was just too tired. So I had dinner with my new host Miriam. Miriam is a wealthy widow. She has four sons and five grandchildren. One son lives in the US and another in Canada. One is a doctor and the other a pharmacist. She herself is an employer and a nurse at her own hospital. Funnily enough it seems her husband was working with the same things as my dad. She seems really nice and open. After dinner we sat together in front of the television watching Tusker’s Project Fame season 6. It is an East African x-factor of sorts. Not everybody have a voice worth bragging about though. But it was fun even though I only saw the ending. After that I went to bed. I had already unpacked earlier and it felt really good to finally be able to do that – not having to live out of my bag any longer.