Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous, Pictures, Travel

I was realizing the other day that my shoes have been so many places in the last four years. My one pair of Nike shoes has been in the United States, Mexico, Canada, India, Kenya, and Tanzania. Here are some of the highlights:

January, 2007: New Delhi, India

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Randi and I were in India in December, 2006 – January, 2007 and we visited New Delhi to see some beautiful architecture in this old city. Pictured is one of the buildings at the site of the Qutub Minar, the tallest brick and stone minaret in the world. The inscriptions on the building I’m standing next to are all in Arabic, carved maybe 600 years ago. I can imagine Muslims in northern India standing at the top of the minaret singing “Allahu akbar!” to call pious Muslims for prayer. Delhi was a big, dirty city, but it is home to many relics of the old world.
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Kenya, Miscellaneous

A funny, temporary website...Most of you should recall that this website used to be located at sarainkenya.org, but when I returned to Kenya without Sara I relocated to alaninkenya.org. I designed a cheesy placeholder for the old website just in case any stragglers dropped by.

The site features a funny picture of me “hunting crabs” while on vacation in Kenya’s coastal city of Watamu. Sara is pictured with some fancy bread and a cute hat, taken during her dietetic internship at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

Well that website expires on May 14th, 2008, so go check it out before it’s too late. Now is a good time to update your bookmarks as well. If May 14th has already passed you can now find Sara’s personal website at: http://barefootdietitian.com.

Until next time, adios!

Kenya, Miscellaneous

I was walking past a large crowd in Tala’s market the other day when I heard a man yell…

“Hey! Yesu amerudi! Habari yako, yesu?”

It means “Jesus has returned! How are you, Jesus?”  Haha!  The large crowd had gathered for some small entertainment (juggling, music, traditional medicines… who knows) but they all stopped to look and laugh when their front man stopped the show to point me out.  I just said, “Mzuri sana” and my friend and I walked off laughing.

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