NAIROBI IN A GLIMPSE
on Alejandra Barahona (Kenya), 18/Jul/2010 18:16, 34 days ago
Our first week in Kenya was a bit overwhelming. The Guest House (Hotel) where we stayed was quite good, great gardens, great food, very clean and the staff very polite, so our first impression was great...Very different when we went to the city center... as you read on our last post we rode the matatus (small mini vans used as public transportation) to the city. Nairobi is big, like any other capital city, a bit cold to what we expected, a bit dusty and a lot dirty... apparently there is no proper garbage system in Kenya so everybody throws their trash in the street or they burn it so at times you can feel the pollution in the air... Our throats felt it bad, China's cold became a bronchitis and for me just swollen tonsils which was kind of annoying for a while.Besides a couple of trips to the city we stayed in the hotel for the whole workshop mingling with all the volunteers who will be working also somewhere in Kenya, a few classes on Kiswahili, some money exchange (1$ = 81 Kenyan Shillings) and some laundry washing as you can see in the last 2 pics, that was and will be our new laundry room for the next 2 years (that's the hotel bathroom though, wait for pics or our apartment's laundry room)... pretty fun right!!! to see more of what Nairobi looks like and a bit of our journey see the video below...OK...first of many more to come, we are now settled in at our apartment in Mombasa, so stay tuned for more photos, videos and stories of us and the organizations we'll be working for and remember, keep in touch, send us a note, an e-mail, some pics ordonate to VSO.