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Vulini "Where there is Shade"

The Villa we stayed at for the last four days of our program. It is the home of a Nigerian United Nations employee who married a Kenyan woman. This is the veiw from the oeean.

THE INDIAN OCEAN and his own PRIVATE beach.

Front Veiw 

Main Stairs. Spirals all the way to the castle's huge roof.

Dinning Room. 11 people sat and ate at this table three times a day.

The Living room that I turned into a theater when it was dark by using the program's projector and my laptop to play movies and tv shows on the wall. That's Constanine on his iphone probably playing chess againist someone. We call him Costa and yes he is Greek. Cyprus to be exact. 

Our pool area incase we didn't want to deal with the waves and salt of the ocean

Nairobi

Yeah that's right. Like a BOSS 
Worth and I taking advantage of his father's club membership at the Hilton. 15th floor right next to the Executive Lounge where you need to be a member to enter.

And that the BOSS veiw.

What a CITY

LIES. They didn't even know what a deep dish was. This was in the food court of a big mall here

Carnivores. Said to be one of the top 50 restaurants in the world is a restaurant very much like Fogo de Chao. There is all types of meats cooked on huge skewers and the menu is already set. A waiter comes by with hot minty towels to cleanse your hands and then the feast begins. It's about $40 per person and you start with the soup of the day and for us it was a green "vegetable" soup, which was pretty good. After that they bring you a portable lazy Susan with 6 Salads Greek, Salsa, Sweet Corn, Three Bean Salad, Baby Marrow & Coleslaw and 6 sauces (Garlic, Horseradish, Mint, Apple, Chili & Chutney) to compliment the range of meat as you are given a crash course on the names of the sauces and what type of meat each sauce is for. Each person gets a salad and the table gets bread and butter. At this point they bring cast iron plates and the meat just starts flooding in. We had ostrich meat balls, bull testicles, alligator (didn’t like it at all), camel (too salty), leg of lamb, chicken legs and wings, beef steaks and other things that I don’t eat like pork ribs and anything else pork. There is a flag on top of the lazy Susan and when you want no more meat and surrender you put the flag down and the Susan will be taken and you will have your choice of deserts; Chocolate Mousse, Fruit Salad with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, Ice Cream, Malva Pudding, Cheese Cake or Tea/Coffee. Mwah, a great dinner.

Tuk Tuk

Tuk Tuk (took took) and Matatus are the man forms of transpot in Mombasa. There is great tension and rivary between the drivers of the each though of course there is also a level of respect.  Tuk Tuk is 50 shilings (65 cents) to close places on the Island where as matatus are only 40 shilings to the furthest though you will be packed in like sardines. This is the tuk tuk that brought me back from lunch. The driver's name is Mohmad and he has a brand new Tuk Tuk that he spruced up with the Ferrari logo. In our short conversation of about five mintues I found out that his wife was in Miami, FL for ten years doing this nursing program but now she is back and working at a hostpital here. He never been to the states but she helped him start his business in which he makes more than 2,000 shilings a day after expenses though they have long hours. Some tuk tuk drivers are homeless. After they work there is a place where they park their vehicle and sleep on the three person seat. Due to the pleasant weather thats all the shelter they need from the elements. They awake with the sun and the noise of the city at 6am and begin their day. 

Streets of Mombasa

Left is a Woman and right is a man. 

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America is Everywhere

Dre wanted to see if he compared to the depiction of the color of Americans.

There is good that the American government does around the world like in this Secondary Lamu school the government funded the construction and currently provide a fully loaded computer lap.


There is even an "American Corner" in the library of the small island of Pemba that offers an airconditioned room and free internet. The boss of this place was so excited to see Americans since Pemba isn't really a touristy place to go. He said that he would tell the embassy that they had us come through probably to insure the future funding.