Hi,

I have now been here just over a week. I have managed to find some work to do, helping the two computer teachers here with fixing up various bits and bobs round site. Their classes start on Monday, so I will probably help with them a fair bit too. I also have a list of databases that might need creating - though I think that they might not really, we’ll have to see, and we have a bit of a scheme to do something interesting that has not been asked for - hopefully that’ll come off and I’ll let you know if/when it does.

So, life here is interesting. Its pretty quiet. The routine seems to be to do a bit of work in the morning, followed by not much in the afternoon. I have been spending my afternoons doing various personal tasks and trying a bit of my swailli and similar. Evenings I have a meal with Kenna and possibly Will (the only other Westerner in town), then either watch a movie or use the internet.

Other than this fairly staid routine I have participated in a mercy mission out to one of the villiages (a child dieing from malaria needed taking back to his village) - which consisted of driving through some beautiful woods on some bery bad “roads”; I have been to the local Massai market (manada), where the Massai gather twice a month to traid cattle, buy clothes, knives, snake bit cures and the like, and then get drunk and fall over. We were quite the odd ones out and had a lot of Massai staring at us and greating us and stuff; I have also been to town a few times and am getting to know it a little - there’s not much there, but it seems hard to navigate around without proper buildings and roads and signs and stuff - all the dirt tracks look the same at the moment. I need to get used to navigating by trees and rocks and things, I guess.

The only other thing that happened here, really, is that CCM, the ruling party, used the cathedral here to gather to choose their candidate for a by election that is about to happen here. This seemed to take a lot of shouting and chanting, followed by a lot of sitting around and making the place look untidy, followed by being paid to show up! They trashed a few of the gardens that Kenna had planted here and dropped litter everywhere and caused us to all feel besieged for the day. But they’ve gone now and thats a good thing.

So this weekend I will be planting some vegetable seeds and going to a little house that is on a hill overlooking the area for some food and probably doing very little else. I have put a few photos up too.