June 3rd: Today was a down day for us. We spent most of the day doing this and that around the compound. We attempted to go to a place called Haller Park where you can feed giraffes and see hippos and crocodiles and many many monkeys, but we got there too late and had missed the feeding times! The Kenyans at the gate informed us that it would be a better idea to come back another time. We zipped back in our tuktuk to the Nakumat (which is a general term for the walmart stores I spoke of earlier).
After that we went and checked out the Ireland guys' compound. We will have a full house at our compound (with 15 people here) so they have another gated/guarded house about a 5 minute walk away. It is just as comfortable and cozy as ours and we sat there for awhile with many interesting conversations on health care in our various countries (Ireland, Canada and the US). By this time our stomaches were growling and Dolas' homecooked meal was desperately calling our names (Lillian cooks at the Ireland guys' compound)!
After we ate dinner we were all wiped for some reason (even though it was a down day) and I was snoring, drooling and mumbling in my sleep by 8:30 pm!
new language lesson:
ni ghali mno = that's too expensive (which comes in handy when dealing with tuktuk drivers or vendors)
jina langu ni... = my name is...
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