I ate a bunch of crappy food today so I wasn’t looking forward to deciding what to eat for dinner. I got to thinking and figured I’d really like to have a nice salad. Well there’s no lettuce anywhere around Tala so I had to improvise a bit. I ended up just mixing cucumber, carrots, tomatoes, onions (kidogo tu!… “just a little”), cilantro, and some hot pepper (raw). The pepper was a little on the hot side, oops, but the cucumber was refreshing, and I’m sure the carrots are helping somehow too. Maybe vision? Other than that, I cooked a lot of fried rice a few weeks ago, and this week I was experimenting with beef stew since I had a really sweet one in Nairobi at Tash’s house over Easter weekend. I learned that beef gets very tender in a pressure cooker!
Thompson Falls
I went to Thompson Falls in Nyahururu the other day with a friend from Tala. It’s about three hours drive from Nairobi, which itself is an hour and a half from Tala. We left a bit early in the morning and were there around lunch time. Other than some dudes dressed up for the tourists and some sweet monkeys, we had the whole place to ourselves, so we sat and chatted about nature, religion, and Kenyan politics for a few hours. By the time we got back to Tala it was late and we were tiiiiired! Enjoy the pictures…
Ice Skating… again.
I went ice skating again this weekend. I went once before, two weeks ago. It was totally awesome, but this time was totally awesomer. I found out that people play hockey on Wednesdays there. I think it’s too dangerous to grab the hockey sticks when the kids are learning, but we found a hockey puck and we kicked it around a bit. The ice rink is at Panari Sky Center on Mombasa road. It’s right across the street from the Nairobi National Park… we saw giraffes walking around just across the street. Karibu Kenya (welcome to Kenya)!
The crew was me and the usual Nairobi chicks (Tash, Ruth, and Esther), but this time we brought along the German dudes from Tala, Franklin and David. They are volunteers in a little village a few kilometers away from Tala. Check out the pictures, y’all!
