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Preparing the brownies...

OMG brownies

By Alan on July 10, 2011

Cassandra’s out of town for the week so I’ve had the house all to myself. In addition to loud music and kernel hacking, I’ve been experimenting in the kitchen. Today I made brownies and OMG! Cassandra bakes a lot of delicious cakes, but I haven’t had brownies like this since at least the last time [...]

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Posted in Food, Kenya | Tagged baking, Brownies, Cassandra, Java House, kitchen, mom, Pat, Tala, tamu | 3 Responses

A crazy “thank you”

By Alan on May 17, 2010

Someone once told me that it was the hot Ukambani sun that made people wander aimlessly around the streets of Tala. It’s funny, but it doesn’t quite explain why we have lots of crazy people in Nairobi (and San Francisco, though. Nairobi estates have these guys who wander around with burlap sacks picking up trash. [...]

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Posted in Kenya | Tagged Banana, Church Road, Crazy, Kenya, Kiosk, Kiswahili, Mlevi, Swahili, Tala, Wazimu, Westlands | Leave a response

Reflections

By Alan on January 22, 2010

It’s hard to believe that five months ago I was living in Tala, working as a VSO volunteer. Life was good then, simple; I was living in a rural area of Kenya, hakuna matata (no problems). I didn’t particularly enjoy teaching, but I loved my colleagues and the pole pole (slow) life was easy to [...]

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Posted in Kenya | Tagged Holy Rosary, ILRI, Kenya, Kiswahili, Linux, Nairobi, Swahili, Tala, Teaching, technology, Theileria parva, Tparva, Uthiru, VSO, work | 2 Responses

Kuwa Mjuaji

By Alan on December 21, 2009

Randi has taken to the streets of Nairobi with vigor. From the moment she arrived she showed a prowess at navigating Nairobi’s busy streets, jumping out of moving matatus, and eating ugali (very thick corn flour porridge, staple food in Kenya) and vegetables with her hands. After we picked her up at the airport we [...]

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Posted in Kenya | Tagged Dagoretti, Eastleigh, Fish, ILRI, Java House, Kenya, matatu, Mwenyeji, Nairobi, samaki, sheng, Somali, Swahili, Tala, Westlands | 1 Response

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