to continue the safari post: it was fabulous. our driver peter was literally the best ever and managed to get us up close and personal with every animal that was hard to spot. it just was so different than i expected...i guess because i just didn't know much about safaris so i didn't know what to expect in the first place. the best way to describe the masai mara safari is to compare it to a treasure hunt. we are the pirates on the hunt and the animals are the treasure. the best part is that we all get to share in the find! the drivers of all the cars each have a walkie talkie and can chat with each other about major finds in the animal kingdom and then they all get to share the prize of seeing the animal. for example: peter would get a call on the radio in swahili and it would be something along the lines of "we found a leopard" or whatever and then we would literally FLY there in our safari mobile and there would be fifty cars waiting for it to come out of the bushes! hilarious. it still feels surreal to think that i was five feet away from a lion. with a real live mane. woah.

another fab find we have discovered is this restaurant called Twitters (which they pronounce tweeters) which is the bomb. we go almost every single day for lunch because it's right across the street from FAIR and our meal is 100 kenyan shillings = $1! hell yeah! it's delish and cheap as mcdonald's but you get a TON of food. however, the kenyans have severe issues with my pickiness. they do not enjoy the fact that i am not the most adventuresome eater and choose to call me out/scold me blatantly every single day. can't catch a break.

so every tuesday night our house looses power from 6:30-9:30. strange, yes. we don't know why but it's like clockwork! so this past week we ate dinner early before it was time to bust out the flashlights (which they call torches...) and then went to this great bar/restaurant/dance club called Taidy's which is like five minutes from our house. we chilled and drank Redds, which are like girly wine coolers, and talked around the table because they had power! it was so nice. i love nights like that.

this work week was great, specifically yesterday. amanda and i got to go to this monthly meeting that FAIR hosts for about 100 sex workers in the nakuru area. i don't know how to describe it, but i just love being around these groups because the women are just sweet. it's sad too, but sweet all the more because they are SO loving and kind to me. they all remembered me from meetings and made me feel so good!  i'm so lucky to be working here and working with them. i wish you could see these women! so beautiful.

tonight we're going dancing. duh. hopefully we won't get malled by the kenyans who literally swarm and pretend like they are taking pictures with invisible cameras of us. whatever. miss you guys. thanks for reading this randomness!