T.I.A. (THIS IS AFRIKA)

So pretty much I am in Kenya...no big deal! Since I've gotten here I have literally been blown away mentally but also by matatu's (busses) which cloud me in black smoke as |I run down the Nairobi streets. This place is epically and unbelievably cool in so many ways I don't even know how to describe it, but it is a million miles away form anything I have known in Canada. We got here on Sunday and our team is unbelievable, so many cool and interesting personalities it is really, really fun! So here is the details of my past four days in waka waka land:

So Sunday, TORONTO AIRPORT, Kris and my attempt to upgrade to first class for my birthday with stories of our professing love for eachother fail and we are stuck in economy class. On our way to amsterdam I tried with not much success to get into Dear John which i had high hopes for but was pretty much a fail, and precious which I also was kind of confused by. I think it may be because only half of my earphones were working and the guy beside me was snoring pretty hardcore. It did help however that when ronan was ahnding out sleeping pills 2 hours before the flight I eagerly popped mine, because I am such a drug addict (well I feel like one with the massive ziplock bag of various pills I have in my pack). Needless to say everyone took their pill when they got on the flight, but I was stuck being drowsy in the airport and for the first half hour of the ride and then awake the entire night! I learned my lesson on the next flight and had a nice cozy sleep! Kris had brought me cupcakes which she somehow managed to sneak past security and we had a nice little birthday in the airport which was amazing! We then went out to visit a little gas station cafe in amsterdam called bonjour, which we agreed was very european and felt as though we were very classy. Then came KENYA!

So we flew in at about 8 at night and the first thing that hit me was how unbelievably dark it was on the grounmd. There are seriously no lights in Nairobi (no street lights, no lights in our hostels when we arrived and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh CRAZY COLD SHOWERS which some say are refreshing but I say are pretty much like a polar bear dip). I have been getting up at 7am (place applause here) to go running with Luke and Emanuel (Our amazing friends form Maragoli who are coming along on the trip with us) and that has been very cool. There is so much traffic, and so many cars here that running is like a game of hungry hippo's with cars but it makes for an interesting run and intense adrenaline rush. We also went into downtown Nairobi the other day and it was seriously like nothing I have ever seen before. They have a central park which is beautiful, palm tree's and people playing soccer and children singing (yes....my favourite thing about africa, which I also did the other day. Luckily they sing very loudly to drown out my well...sounds....sounds which hopefully you will never have to hear). OKKKK HAVE TO GO....fill you in sooonnn!! AHHH KENYA IS AMAZINGG!!!