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		<title>Why I like matatus</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2011/05/27/why-i-like-matatus</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 15:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matatus are the primary form of transportation in Kenya. A &#8220;matatu&#8221; can be anything from a 14-seater Nissan minivan shuttling people around town, to a full-size bus ferrying dozens of people across the country. For those of you who&#8217;ve never been to Kenya: if you&#8217;ve ever ridden BART in San Francisco, a dalla dalla in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Used-car salesmen are all the same!</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2011/03/16/used-car-salesmen-are-all-the-same</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend Cassandra and I spent a few hours at the Sunday Car Bazaar on Ngong Road; a big, dirt parking lot where there are tons of used cars for sale. We had been thinking about buying a car to putt around town with and, seeing as we know next to nothing about cars, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby elephants are flippin&#8217; cute</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2011/01/19/baby-elephants-are-flippin-cute</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sister and I paid a visit to the elephant orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. I guess it&#8217;s technically the &#8220;David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust,&#8221; but most people generally just call it the &#8220;elephant orphanage.&#8221; I had been to the nearby Nairobi Safari Walk before, which also has an orphanage, but this is a whole new ball [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi is beautiful</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/12/29/malawi-is-beautiful</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randi and I finally got out of Morogoro, and wow, Malawi is beautiful! Also, as it turns out, being stuck in Morogoro for a few extra days wasn&#8217;t as bad as we thought it was going to be. Our initial impression was so bad because the town is hot, dry and dusty. To its credit, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rastafarianism is a religion</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/12/04/rastafarianism-is-a-religion</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If smoking weed, growing dreadlocks, and listening to Bob Marley sounds good to you, you just might be a Rastafarian! There&#8217;s a lot more to it than that, but I&#8217;ll be damned if I ever meet a Rasta who can explain it without mentioning reggae music or marijuana. It&#8217;s quite popular here in Kenya, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Switzerland</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/11/07/beautiful-switzerland</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I went to Switzerland to visit my girlfriend, who is doing some coursework there for her Ph.D. It was great to see her, get some time off work, and tour around such a beautiful country! Snow-covered alps, autumn forests, serene blue lakes, old city streets, cute houses, you name it; if it&#8217;s in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyan cops getting busted</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/10/08/kenyan-cops-getting-busted</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/10/08/kenyan-cops-getting-busted#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not entirely sure whether this is hilarious, sad, or just ironic: last week a few cops got caught taking bribes from matatus by the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission (KACC). It was apparently a sting operation, complete with fake notes, undercover operatives, cameras, etc. For better or worse, the ordeal was caught on tape: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanapiga matatu!</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/09/06/wanapiga-matatu</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/09/06/wanapiga-matatu#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://alaninkenya.org/?p=1886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Citizen journalism in action! I was in a matatu after work tonight and I found a hell of a commotion at Church Road and Wayaki Way. It&#8217;s not every day you see cars driving on the wrong side of the road, and the Westlands traffic jam never backs up all the way to Safaricom headquarters. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things I say on the streets of Nairobi</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/08/23/things-i-say-on-the-streets-of-nairobi</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/08/23/things-i-say-on-the-streets-of-nairobi#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I&#8217;m amazed how much random stuff comes out of my mouth when I&#8217;m walking around Nairobi. I&#8217;m terrible at conversational Swahili, but it seems like I always have a quip ready to throw back at someone who shouts at me on the street. Here are some I&#8217;ve used recently: &#8220;Jina langu si John&#8221; (my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blast from the past</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/07/31/blast-from-the-past</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/07/31/blast-from-the-past#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How hilarious is this? I found these old badges of mine while looking through boxes in my mom&#8217;s garage: 2002 2005 2010 &#160; The first picture was taken in 2002 when I was a freshman at CSU, Chico. That badge was old and cracked by the time I finished working at the User Services department [...]]]></description>
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