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The digestive problems are "better" today. I even managed to eat tilapia last night that was boiled in this red "gravy" with the head, skin, everything...all intact. Thanks Mama Mary! She is from Kisumu near Lake Victoria, so she loves fish so I guess I better start getting used to eating WHOLE-unfilleted fish. The meeting with the ambassador was kinda boring, but semi-informative I guess. Apparently it's televised in the U.S. but I didn't see any cameras. Nothing we really haven't heard before, be safe, exercise caution but he seems to think that it'll all get worked out in the coming months and that we as Americans don't have to much to worry about since we are not being targeted. It was cool to see the U.S. embassy in Kenya though...VERY SECURE! It was more difficult than getting on an airplane. Yesterday we got threatened by a boy with a hat full of poop to give us money or he'd throw it at us. Well, that's what one of the guys walking with us said that he said. I couldn't really see what was actually in the baseball cap he was carrying or what he was mumbling so I just ignored him and kept walking. That has been our only major run in, otherwise everyone else has been very nice and clean. There is so much poverty here and we see it everyday on our walks to school. There are so many moms and babies and bums just laying around. It's difficult to ignore but you have to. If you make any contact with them they will not leave you alone. One boy even followed us into the grocery store and shopping center near our school just because we acknowleded him when he asked for money. We ended up buying him a loaf of bread and coke at the grocery store but that's not something we can do everyday.
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