We've now learnt it all.... except what we don't know yet.

We are completing 2 weeks in Nairobi, Kenya's capital. Who are 'we'? We are 4 1-year term service workers with MCC. From left to right there is myself, then Julia, Blee and Ben.

On a typical week day we would wake up in our AirBNB flat, eat a breakfast ranging from toast to fried rice and sea weed soup (our dear South Korean, Blee, as spoiled us with Korean cousine :) )
We walk to the MCC Office, about 10 minutes away for a full morning of Swahili.

On our way to class >

 < Rand is the MCC Kenya rep. showing off the MCC office

Every morning we break for chai and snack. Here we had chapati (on the left) and mandazi. Two very common foods. Chapati is comparable to fried, homemade flour tortillas and mandazi is comparable to rollkucken. 

 The afternoons are spent meeting with various people for cultural and MCC orientation. By the time we get home we are tired but there is still dinner to cook and Swahili homework to do.

While the weekdays are good, the weekends are when we get to go out and enjoy Nairobi!

 The Karura forest is a large forest in the middle of Nairobi where we spent one Sunday afternoon.

 < Wart hog (cause animals are cool)

Saving elephants one orphan at a time > 

< Giraffe kisses <3 <3 <3  They made me miss kisses from my cows back home...

Rand and Selena, our bosses, think we know enough after only two weeks so they are sending off this coming week! Tuesday we will drive at least 7 hours west to drop Julia off in Songor where she will be working with public health education. Wednesday we will trek back to Nairobi.
Thursday we will take Ben and Blee a few hours east to Kola where they will be focusing on conservation agriculture.
And finally Friday I'll head to my new home in Kitui where I will be assisting with conservation agriculture as well.

A couple of learnings/highlights from these weeks:

• Getting to spend lots of time with the MCC team in Kenya. 
• getting a crash course on Swahili
• learning to dodge traffic in the bustling city
• taking matatu (local bus) with pumping music and a music video playing on a big screen on the front of the bus
•  the beautiful trees, flower and animals!
• learning how Kenyan's keep time. The first hour of the day is the first hour the sun is up, which is 7am on my watch, and the 12th hour being the last hour of sunlight, 6 pm on my watch.
• listen to my roommate Julia practice her swahili in her sleep talking