One thing both Evan and I noticed in the transition to Africa was that time seemed to stand still. We are in more of a routine now, and time seems to be speeding up a bit, which is welcome.
We went to town (about a 40 minute drive) yesterday for a lunch, a lecture, then a dinner with some other "visitors", which is what they call people like us who come for a while to work/study/teach. Which is interesting, in a way, given the old TV show V which was about the visitors. Sometimes I get the feeling that people we seen on the street expect us to unhinge our jaw and swallow a rat whole or something. Anyway, there were no Americans at the dinner other than us. The others were Canadiens, very nice people. One older (yes, even older than me) couple is here to teach for the semester, and then there are three female students doing projects. They are all living in town, which means I don't know how much we will actually see them. We are much more on our own here than I thought we would be. Nonetheless, the food was good, and we went to a Chinese Restaurant, the only one in Eldoret. The owner and his wife are really from China. It must be quite a story as to how they ended up in the middle of Kenya.
We are facing our second weekend here. I'm not sure what we are going to do. We haven't done any tourist things yet. We may go to town on Saturday to get Evan a WiFi connector that you can get from the phone company to plug in to the laptop to get wifi. Evan misses his friends, I know, and he misses his soccer team. This has been harder then he or I ever imagined it would be. Still, the people are very nice, and the campus is actually pretty nice as well. So, it is difficult, but not without its pleasures and a little bit of fun. The days seem to get easier, and hopefully that will continue.
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