Cody Waters, observations

Cody's entry
2009-01-20


After we left the school, we had to make a decision, either a 1 hour ride on a big bus, not really comfortable, or a half hour matatu ride and was really uncomfortable. We chose the matatu. We got in and sat down and I immediately knew this was going to be pretty bad. The matatu was originally supposed to sit something like 10 people. Well we don't start moving until the matatu was full, and when we had 10 people inside, we didn't start moving. I was kind of confused, I mean, the matatu is full lets get a move on. We didn't start going until we had 18 people inside. You're probably wondering how that's possible. We had people sitting on top of each other, people like, half standing half crouching in the matatu. Oh yea, a matatu is pretty much a bus but its van. So it's a van-bus. The only thing that made this matatu ride decent was that there was a little baby sitting beside me. He had the smallest face in the world but big puffy cheeks. Every time I looked at him it made me smile. But the baby got off before us so the rest of the way I couldn't stop thinking of how uncomfortable this van-bus really was. On the way to our destination, we suddenly stopped in the middle of the road. Well we more like stopped in the middle of a little place with a couple shops. Anyways some people came out and started looking under the car. I thought we might of ran something over but it turns out the transmission was really terrible. We couldn't stop to let any one of unless it was on a hill or we just kept moving and they would have to jump off. We finally got to the gas station in Kakamega which was really close to our house. We got off, thanked the bus driver, but we didn't go home yet. We went to the internet café for somewhere around 30 minutes. I did all I had to in like 10 minutes, like went on facebook for a bit, sent an e-mail to my dad, then went on facebook some more. We only had 2 computers so when I was done; my mom went on the computer I was using. We both finished before Terry did because he was trying to do some banking or something. So me and mom walked home without him. We stopped at the market and got a couple things then we walked home. But when we got home, we didn't have the keys to get back in the house. Mom had an soccer ball and a pump in the bag for some reason so I pumped it up and started kicking it around. 20 minutes later, Terry got home and we went inside. I started reading my book and only had like 20 pages left. So I finished my first book and started on my second. I soon lost track of time but it was dark out side and I was sleepy so I set up my mosquito net, and went to sleep.