Monday, October 12, 2009
Sunday
We rode a Matatu (the low cost, low comfort, rather dangerous public transport) most of the way to church and walked the rest of the way through a slum/flea market where one could buy lumber, used wire, shoes, fruit of many kinds and all sorts of other interesting stuff. The church was a tent, with an added on part made from a billboard tarp stretched over wood, and plastic chairs for seating. One thing I found interesting was that most of the songs were a single line that was repeated many times with the occasional alteration of a word. The pastor is a Kenyan and speaks both Swahili and English so when he was speaking English his translator would speak Swahili then he would switch and so hid translator would too. I occasionally heard a word in the Swahili that I recognized so at least I have learned something... After church we went to an Ethiopian restaurant. They brought out the food on a tray with little piles of the different stuff, meat, another kind of meat that was in a little stand that had burning charcoal under it, some garbanzo bean stuff that was really good, (however it had insanely hot peppers hiding in it) and some other stuff that I don't remember. There was no silverware, they brought some white pancake like stuff that was in rolls, and you picked up the food with that. We played more Ultimate in the evening and everyone was really impressed because I, by pure chance, threw a disc the length of the field and my target person did not have to move their feet. Today we are going to go help the pastor of the church design a greenhouse, oh, we are leaving in ten minutes...
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Interesting! I've really been enjoying your blog.
ReplyDeletehi isaac, i should be sending you updates from this end huh? but its not as interesting...
ReplyDeleteyou are the morning paper now... bill is rebuilding the kitchen floor.. big messy
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Hey Isaac, I t sounds like you are really enjoying yourself!!!! I've been showing my sibs your pics and we all think they are awsome!!!
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