No big trips last week. Last weekend was spent eating Nyama Choma-roasted meat at Zam Zam's. They basically just bring out buckets of beef (at least I think it was beef although dead dogs on the side of the road are about as prevalent as dead deer in WI and I saw one on the walk there sooo....maybe) and a couple plates of tomatoes and onions. Then you just go to town. Zam Zam's is a small restaurant owned by one of the MSID student's host family. It is made of mostly sheets of tin for walls (how most construction of small businesses is done here) and even some cinder blocks which is pretty fancy.

On Saturday we went to "Deep West" a very Luo club in Nairobi. Everyone, well mostly everyone, was celebrating this week after the signing of the peace agreement. Many Kenyans were wishing each other Happy New Year since nobody got to celebrate 2008 because the end of December marked the beginning of the violence after the results of the presidential election were announced. My host mom said she was woken up at Midnight on the 31st by gun shots in Kibera. The band at "Deep West" was played traditional music sung in the Luo language. I must say I got caught up in the Luo pride and bought myself a Raila Odinga shirt. They were the bright orange ODM shirts from the election time, although the had blacked out "president" and put "prime minister" so the new shirt said "Raila Odinga: The people's prime minister" I thought it was quite amusing. Mostly all of our teachers are pro-Odinga so the 3 of us who got one thought we would be fine wearing them at class today, but our luck we have a Kikuyu guest lecturer who made it known right away that he was a hard-core Kikuyu Kibaki fan. It was laughed off but a little tense the rest of the morning, although our country analysis professor who's specialty is politics loved them. He loved them so much that he's coming out to go dancing with us at "Deep West" next weekend so that he can get one himself.