Cody's Adventure Jan 23

Today I woke up at around 8 30am because we were going to meet up with Susan to go to a fish farm that she funded. We missed the original matatu we were going to go on but we got on another one later on. When we got to where we were going, we walked down a road for a bit but then we saw boda bodas and we got on them and they took us to the fish farm. When we got there we were greeted by a number of people. Today was the first day I ever went inside a mud house and it actually wasn’t so bad. I thought it would smell really bad and everything would look dirty, but it was fine, no smell at all. We sat down and started talking about stuff and then somebody brought in some sandwiches, roasted peanuts, and some tea. The sandwiches looked terrible but later found out that it was pretty much bread and butter so it wasn’t supposed to look good. The tea was great but before I was finished everyone started to go down to the fish farm. I was told I want allowed to leave until I finished my tea so I started chugging it down a little bit. I finished and caught up with everyone else and saw something I didn’t really expect to see. There were about 5-6 ponds. I thought “OK, where’s the fish farms at?” but these were the fish farms. The fish farms in Canada were nothing like this. So I walked down to the last pond and saw around 7 guys digging a new pond, by hand. There were no machines to be found anywhere and before I knew it I was in the hole digging with everybody else. The mud was so heavy, nothing like shovelling the snow out of the drive way. It was 5x heavier then that. It was all muddy at the bottom of the hole so I had to take my shoes off. The mud felt really good between my toes. I didn’t step on one rock. After we finished digging we washed up a little bit and went back inside the house for a meeting. After the meeting was done we all stepped outside for a little fresh air. Then we went back into the house for some more food, even though we had just eaten like an hour ago. We had ugali, really crispy cat fish, pita bread stuff, chicken broth/soup to dip the pitas in, and chicken. We also had some type of salad thingy but I didn’t like it. After we were done we started walking down the road and we got on a matatu to go back home. I realized that this was the same matatu we had taken that other time with the baby. But this time we fit 19 people into it, as to 18. I wonder why they do this when it’s only supposed to have 14 people. Any way, a ways down the road we started stalling a little bit. I thought it was the same problem as before, but this time we had a flat tire. I thought we got it for either 2 reasons, 1 is that there are pot holes everywhere and we hit a bad one, or 2, we had 19 people in the car going on a road that was filled with pot holes when we were legally only supposed to have 14. so we changed it and were on our way. But then we got another flat tire, the same place as before, the front left tire. Now we were out of tires but lucky for us there were 3 boda bodas going down the road. We got on them and went to the Kakamega cyber café. I went on face book a bit, did some e-mail and was done. We left the cyber café and walked down to our good friend Paul. We bought some fruit and vegetables and were on our way. We got home so I started reading my book. There was a pizza movie night at the shayway guest house but I decided I didn’t want to go. Later on in the evening, I started seeing lightning and hearing thunder and feeling the rain beat down on our house. Before I knew it, the power was out. I got my headlamp and guided mom to hers. I took this opportunity to name all the pictures on my phone and listen to some music. Right when I named the last picture in my phone, the power went back on. So I started to read my book again. After a while I started to get tired, so I set up my mosquito net and drifted off to sleep.