Well yesterday I went to netball practice and had planned to go use the internet later, but that just didn’t happen. Instead, I went to practice, at 7 in the morning, and nobody else showed up until 8. None of the women really wanted to play so we sat around for another hour and a half. Talk about a waste of a morning! Anyway then one of the women (Frida) invited me over to see her house, on the way we got distracted for about 4 hours, first at breakfast (chunks of goat meat), then to Kariakoo for Frida and another woman to buy things. Fun times and lots of fun calls of “hey mzungu!”, “hello sista”, and “jambo friendi”. After lunch at Frida’s (it being about 2 or 3 in the afternoon) we went to a local place called the Centre Point Bar for drinks Every once in a while a machinga (guy selling things) would come over selling anything from cashew nuts, to light fixtures, to enormous Titanic movie posters. One guy was actually selling bows and arrows, but he got chased off by some people who said it was dangerous selling weapons to drunk people. And occasionally a Maasai in traditional clothing, complete with machete and tire sandals would walk by. Then a guy wearing only long underwear with a stuffed belly walked by talking on a fake phone. With him were some acrobats who jumped through hoops, sat on nails and balanced multiple soda bottles on their faces. They didn’t stay too long, and after they left a guy came by selling pedicures. Frida decided to get one. The guy even did nail designs, he was pretty good at it too (probably practiced on himself, he did have quite nice, long painted nails). The best part of it all was that I didn’t have to move at all to see any of it! All in all, a pretty interesting night (or afternoon, I was home at about 7:30).

One thing I’m kind of embarrassed to admit is that I have begun watching Secreto De Amor, a soap opera from some Spanish speaking country. It’s all about Maria Clara and Carlos Raul who are in love, but Carlos married someone else (an evil woman named Barbara), and Maria Clara is now engaged to Barbara’s brother Lissandro (after giving birth to Carlos Raul’s child) and she just inherited a bunch of money from Barbara and Lissandro’s grandmother. The show was originally in Spanish so everything is badly dubbed into English. None of the voices fit the characters, they are either too high, too low, or just bad in general. But everyone here loves it, if you walk by the dorms during the show, you can actually hear people singing along with the them song (my little sister here also likes to sing the theme song all the time, which is just Secreto de Amor repeated over and over again). Even people who speak no English are addicted to it. It also plays about 15 times a day, so if you miss an episode, you can just watch it one of the 10 other times it shows.

In other news, I am not able to play in the netball tournament because I don’t work for the college. Too bad, it would have been fun, but I think I am still going to go sometime next week.

Anyway I think I have given you all enough to read (sorry, I am still trying to procrastinate and not do any of my work, and so I end up writing on this thing all the time!).