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Jambo! So the safari at Masai Mara was canceled this weekend because they thought Kofi Annan would make his announcement Friday or Saturday. The "deadline" (which has been bumped back way too many times) is now scheduled for sometime next week....which means the safari will probably get bumped back as well. Bush is in Africa right now but skipping over Kenya...he was still able to put in an enlightening message which was found on the front page of newspapers here today..."Bush calls for peace in Kenya" Well, HELLO! Who doesn't want peace. He decided to drop Condi off here though, and she is suppose to be helping out the peace talks next week.
Some people in our group went to Mombassa on the coast for the weekend. They left Friday afternoon on a bus and came back today. I thought that sounded like WAY too short of a time to spend on the beach so myself and some others decided to stay back and explore Nairobi and hit the coast later. It was a fun weekend in the sun even though we were not on the ocean. Friday night we went to Westlands and hit up some of their "discos" which are basically just night clubs and not your 70's style disco ball discos. They play quite a mix of traditional Kenyan music to American rap. They even played some "kenyanized" Shania Twain. It was very unique! Saturday afternoon was spent downtown. We visited a Hindu temple and got a tour and even some "bites" (snacks) as they said. Afterwards we walked to the city center and went to the Masai market. There is a huge one in the city center on Saturdays and they LOVE mzungus! Today we explored the outskirts of Kenya and visited Nairobi National Park where we went on a Safari Walk. The animals were pretty lazy since we went in the middle of the afternoon, but it was still a good time. We also visited the elephant orphanage that is just up the road from Nairobi National Park. It was founded by a guy called David Sheldrick who pioneered some techniques in taking care of baby elephants and then returning them into the wild. Many of the mothers of the babies were killed by poachers. The baby elephants acted like little kids and the caretakers pointed out they also acted alot like humans. They said the baby elephants that had seen the violent death of their mothers had psychological problems they were trying to help them overcome. It was so fun to be so close and pet them, etc. One of the greatest things in Kenya is your freedom at places like that. In America, baby elephants charging at your little kids would be a lawsuit waiting to happen, but here they just laugh and tell the parents and kids they're just playing and not to scream. I will try to put some pictures up later next week to show you how cute they were.
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