Reunited with Jimmy!

Jimmy came to Luanda to pick me up and bring me to his home in Isibania. I was soooo excited to see him again, but here in Kenya girls and boys do not touch in public. Alas, we did have a fun trip here to Isibania. We stopped in Homa Bay at a nice restaurant by the lake where I ordered spaghetti (or a distant cousin of spaghetti made with the standard royco seasoning). Jimmy and I took pictures by the animal statues and realized that one of them actually moved and was a real camel.

When we arrived, Jimmy showed me around the house and its really cool to see the fusion of Kenya culture and American culture in the house and the way everyone lives. Isibania is a bigger town than Luanda and is incredibly green with rolling hills. It really is beautiful here and his housemates are really fun. I’m glad that I get to come here and meet everyone. Jimmy and his friend Elias took me for a tour of their neighborhood. It was funny greating people here because I kept trying to respond in Luo, but they speak a different language. Jimmy has already learned some of it as well as Kiswahili so he kept up the conversations. Then we went back and two of the girls cooked an amazing dinner of chapatti tacos. No offense to ugali, but I am going to really be sick of eating corn after this year. I was very happy to have rice, beans, avocados, and tomatoes with lots of yummy spices.

I’m really happy to be with Jimmy again. I have missed him these past could months. I’m really glad we are both in Kenya together even if we are still a couple hours away. At least we don’t have to drive through LA traffic. We plan to have some adventures here and are planning a trip to the Massai Mara soon. We will be back in the US in December which will be here before we know it. We both miss everyone at home and hope you are all doing well.

This is Jimmy,.  It was great to see Anne too.  She will get to see what we do here for the next week and it will be fun to take her around.  I know it will go by quick, but it’s good to have her here.  We will try to show her the best of what Isibania has to offer.