Cody, on the farm...

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Today, mom woke me up at around 9 o’clock so I had time to get ready because we were going on a little field trip with Matano. I didn’t want to get up at all. I had such a hard time falling asleep because of my sunburn that a got on my arm the day before. But I finally got up and got dressed, ate some food, brushed my teeth, and before I knew it, we were out the door. We only had to walk for like 3 minutes before we got to where we were meeting with Matano. So, we got there and went in a mini-matatu, and were on our way to the first stop. We stopped first at a farm owned by a lady named Margret. She planted banana trees, avocado trees, pawpaw trees, sukuma plants, and sugar cane. It was a very lovely farm. A whole bunch of other people were there as well, but I can’t remember their names. So we talked for a bit, and were on our way to the next stop. We traveled to another farm. This one had pretty much all the same foods, but she had a pineapple bush. It was like the coolest thing I’ve ever seen, because the pineapple wasn’t hidden at all by the bush. It was just growing right out in the open. She also has a passion fruit tree. But the fruits weren’t even close to maturing so it didn’t really look very appealing. We had a tour of her farm, and on the tour I spotted this enormous bird. We didn’t have a clue what it was. Terry thought it might be a heron, I thought it might be a stork, and mom thought it might have been one of those horned-billed birds. We never really found out what it was, so we kept on walking around the farm. The next stop, we stopped at another farm. Yea, 3 farms in one day. But this one also had animals, like cows and chickens and I might of even saw a pig, but it could have been a goat, it was like in the bushes. So we sat down and chatted with Matano about KASFOOC and some other stuff. The owner of the house brought in drinks and these little cookies. It was WAY better then that nasty cream mom, me and Terry got that one time. I drank my Fanta, and started eating those little cookies when a baby chick walked right into the house and started exploring. I watched it for a bit, before it left. So a little while later, the owner of the house walked back in, with the baby chick and just handed it to me. I was a little surprised that it didn’t try to peck my eyes out of anything. So I let it walk around on my lap a little bit before I put it down. When I did, it made a break for it under the table. It was pretty funny. So after our little snack we walked down the road a little bit and saw some guys burning bricks. I thought it was pretty cool, and so did everyone else, so we stopped in and talked with the guys doing the burning. They said you have to let it burn for 7 days before it was ready for use, or something like that. So we talked for a bit then got back into the mini-matatu and he drove us back home. When we got back to our house, I felt pretty hungry and thirsty at the same time. So I had an orange, then I went on the computer to do this half of the blog. So I’ll write a little more later on in the evening.