The past week or so has been interesting. Much of my time has been spent in the computer room at IU House (the place I use as my office space more than not) working on two research projects. I have spent hours in front of my computer, designing & writing proposals. And now I am waiting, waiting for various people to get back to me so that I can move forward on the research. I am learning how to have patience here. In addition to being cooped up in my "office", I have found a bit of time for a few other things around town. Last week I went into town to once again find a working fax machine to fax one of my documents in order to receive my absentee ballot via email. I finally had success & have now officially voted & am sending my ballot in the mail, back to Arlington County. While in town last week using the fax, I also went into a little shop to buy some new closed-toed shoes. I have had a horrible time with getting blisters on my feet with any & every shoes I wear here. I did buy some new shoes before leaving the US and hadn't broken them in yet but I don't think this is the only contributing factor to my now very sore, beatup feet. I am walking a bit more than usual but I am starting to think that part of it might be related to the high elevation (I blame a lot of the high elevation). At least, I should be able to blame the very slow process of healing of my blisters. Needless to say, the new shoes (which were nice leather, kinda matronly looking but comfortable) gave me two new blisters.
Other things that have occupied my time in the past week - I went out to lunch on Saturday with my preceptor Dr. Nangami. We went to this nice restaurant called Poa Place. It has both indoor & outdoor dining. Of course, I wanted to sit outside for lunch. There is a picture below of the landscape from our small dining tent & the foreboding sky just before the skies openned up on us and rained. Aaaahhh, the rain. It has been raining here in Eldoret since Saturday - today is Thursday. The rain brings cold air & lots of mud. The temperature has been around 55-65 degrees most days. I can say that I did not prepare for that kind of weather in Kenya!
The first pictures below are from Sunday evening. I spent the evening with the Gachengechi family, eating dinner & watching a movie at their house. We had ugali, a goat stew, ribs and what I call "chicken-on-a-stick".
Here are a few snapshots from my activities in the past week or so.
Other things that have occupied my time in the past week - I went out to lunch on Saturday with my preceptor Dr. Nangami. We went to this nice restaurant called Poa Place. It has both indoor & outdoor dining. Of course, I wanted to sit outside for lunch. There is a picture below of the landscape from our small dining tent & the foreboding sky just before the skies openned up on us and rained. Aaaahhh, the rain. It has been raining here in Eldoret since Saturday - today is Thursday. The rain brings cold air & lots of mud. The temperature has been around 55-65 degrees most days. I can say that I did not prepare for that kind of weather in Kenya!
The first pictures below are from Sunday evening. I spent the evening with the Gachengechi family, eating dinner & watching a movie at their house. We had ugali, a goat stew, ribs and what I call "chicken-on-a-stick".
Here are a few snapshots from my activities in the past week or so.
Chicken-on-a-stick!
Me, chowing into the chicken-on-a-stick.
Dan Gachengechi, sitting in their home.
This was taken at the secondary school where there was a ceremony taking place. Ruth & I were helping to prepare tea & snacks for everyone. The pictures show some of the conventional stoves & ways to prepare food. There is coal burning in the bottom of the small stove. 
This is a larger, wood burning stove with a chimney where multiple things can be heated at the same time. Note the kettle for tea - milk being heated, not water.
This is Poa Place, taken from our dining tent outside. 
One of the streets in Eldoret, outside of the small shop where I bought new shoes.
Another view of the street.
There is the shop & the Gachengechi's car.
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