Nairobi: Ice Cream, Pizza and Stupidity

So Nairobi is a bit insane, it has ICE CREAM and BOWLING and some extremely 'interesting' clubs.

We've been here since Tuesday afternoon and the whole thing's a little surreal. It feels like a Kenyan city in that there's lots of street kids and crazy traffic (you can scream 'red light red light RED LIGHT!' at the taxi driver and still they will drive through it), but there is also real shops (I bought a novel!), bowling, mini golf, and pizza restaurants, which makes it rather unnerving for people who have been living in pure(ish) Kenya for 3 months.

Over the 4 days, the best things have been bowling (I got three strikes in a row and everyone thinks I'm some kind of bowling genius! Pretty sure it was pure luck but I'm liking it anyway), going to the cinema (saw Marley and Me and cried and cried and cried), playing mini golf and watching Rebecca be so bad that the ball was flying everywhere, visiting the elephant orphanage again and the wedding today. It was the wedding of the son of one of our teachers to an American woman, and it was really fun :) There was tons of clapping, dancing, singing and random orders to 'high five your neighbour!', and the whole thing was so happy and cheerful. It was all outside and it was a beautiful sunny day :) All the other teachers were there and it was nice to spend some time with them outside school, although the interaction is limited as they speak in kiswahili most of the time.

More interesting experiences have been waking up to realise that leaving your hotel door room unlocked, with the key on the outside of the door, all night is NOT the best idea, especially in Nairobi which is supposed to be one of the most dangerous cities in Africa (proven a little by the consequences of leaving said room unlocked), going to a fun but unpleasant at times club, and renewing our visas, which wasn't difficult but left us all covered in blue ink after having our fingerprints taken.

Tonight we are about to go and get yet another pizza (Nairobi is the only place in Kenya, I swear, where you can get one in less than 45 minutes) and then get on an overnight bus to Mombasa, on the coast. It's going to take all night and arrive at 7am or something, and Kenyan roads are very bumpy, so wish me luck with getting any sleep whatsoever. At the moment though I am unworried as the thought of pizza is very very nice :)