9th July 2010 - In which I get a bit soppy

Finally! We are finally here after a bloody 7 hours and 50 minutes. I'm writing this at my grandparent's flat and trying to remember anything of import that's happened since I last wrote... nope, nada. Well, this is a bit of a bittersweet time as it's probably the last time I'll be in Nairobi in this flat. See, my grandparent's have slowly been moving into their youngest son's house here in England. So the apartment is pretty bare as pretty much everything, furniture wise, that I know is gone.
This place has so many memories! I remember trying to climb the window bars; they seemed huge at the time. Now I'm about 3/4 their size and trying to stop my cousins from climbing up them.
And, oddly enough, the toilets in the hall. They used to freak me out when I was younger. 'Why?' I hear you cry. Coz I had just watched Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and I was terrified that I'd run into a troll...

Now, have any of you had a 'bucket bath'? Water gets EVERYWHERE. Or is that just me? Anyway, it's basically a shower using a bucket. Simple. Only, my sister and I used to be small enough to fit completely in the buckets. Fun times...
Wow, I'm gonna miss this place...

Yay! We're going to the Village Market! I love markets; all the haggling and colours and haggling and people and haggling and just the sheer amount of STUFF. If one stall isn't selling something, you can safely bet that another will be. The same also applies if a stall is selling something. :P

The Village Market is at the shopping centre every Friday, so its a nice thing to look forward to. But there's a Maasai Market near the supermarket which is full of alleyways and is even more amazing, in my opinion. But I digress. We don't tend to buy a lot at the Village Market but as this may be the last time we're here, we did some spending. Just to clue you up, 100 Ksh = £1 roughly. I ended up with this gorgeous dust cover for notebooks. Unfortunately, the one I'm using to write this in is too big to fit. :(


So, now we're waiting to go back to my uncle's (the one who's daughter is getting married or TOWDIGM for short now) apartment roof for dinner. I'm hungry...

10:30pm - I'm on Kenya time now. We just went to visit an aunt to get kitted out for various wedding things. THEN... there was this humongous power cut. For something like two hours or so, there was no power whatsoever. So we used candles for light. :) And ate by candlelight. One of the candles had a paper rim and may have caught fire and was burning merrily away. I think it was tissue paper. You know how tissue paper is mega thin and all? Well, it was burning quite fast and the flame was slightly coloured and it was very prettyful.

We also got a visit from (yet another) of my cousins. She turned 1 two days ago and is absolutely adorable!


Well, it's now 10:35, and I've been awake since 4am UK time and I am absolutely shattered. Gonna go get ready and sorted for bed. Good night! Oh, and yay; my American cousins and the rest of my cousins are coming tomorrow!

8th July 2010 (Part 2) - In which 'halal pork' is mentioned

'Kay, so I'm sitting, waiting in the terminal now. You know when you get through baggage and all that, then there're the shops, right? Well, there were a few Asian dudes working in this duty free store (basically, Heathrow's duty free is usually manned by Asians from South London) and one of them goes to a co-worker (it was a she) 'So, can you get halal pork?' Needless to say, I legged it before collapsing in fits of laughter.
Now I'm just waiting and I think I see a bookshope so I'll write more on the plane...

I'm on the plane now! Wheeeee! Boarded about 15 minutes ago and am doing some good old fashioned people spotting. There're a lot of uni. students here...
Bugger... I just found out that this is around a 7 hour flight -.- Ah, it's worth it. More later; I'm gonna sort out my bag (*ahem* rucksack) out.
Oh, one more thing. Especially for this, I have a shiny new notepad! And it will end up with writing in it. That's rare for me, guys. :P And now I have to tell my sister to bugger off and stop watching me write...

10:45pm - This is still England time, beeteedubz. In Nairobi, it's something like quarter to 1am. So, I just watched Alice in Wonderland. The SFX are completely awesome but the story seemed a bit jerky and off kilter to me. It reminds me of the Looking Glass Wars tirlogy but is (apparently) based on one of Carroll's sequels. But I prefer the LGW books. Now, I'm being told to sleep, so I'm gonna catch some Zs.

G'night!

8th July 2010 (Part 1)

I don't really know if today should count as part of my little blogging thing but whatever. Screw whatever metaphorical rules there are.
So, I was writing this (on paper) in Biology and I was meant to be copying out a graph. Psh, yeah right(!) It's my last academic lesson, for crying out loud! ..... Fine, so I drew the graph....

Ranting aside, today's a slightly bittersweet day. My English teacher's leaving for a school in Bristol and today is his last lesson with my class apart from me. Oh well; I'll probably be kept up to date on whatever weird crap is going on through my friends stalking him on FB. Yes, my English class is odd.

Now, (I'm still in Biology) if only Barnett (Biology teacher) would shut up and stop talking about athletes and hormones and blood doping... oh good! She stopped. We're watching 'The Bionic Vet' now. It's pretty amazing! I'll be back later...

9:30am - ACK! What is up with Barnett's face?! She keeps wiping it... o_O
9:31am - Aww; chinchillas are adorabibble!
9:45am - Animals can get arthritis? Sasha - border collie - knee has disintegrated coz of arthritis. Who'da thunk?

HII!! =) <-- 'kay, Yasmin wanted to say hi

9:50am - This strikes me as odd: ALL of the surgical procedures have gone well. Do they actually show any operations that don't go through so well?
9:55am - Wow, my class are real wimps! Or just reeeally squeamish. Well, some of them are. What's wrong with seeing blood in surgical procedures or dissections?!
9:58am - And the lesson is over!
9:59am - Or not... Bloody Barnett... Bloody bells... -.-

10:00am - NOW the lesson is over
10:10am - I'm hungry...

You know what, I'll stop writing during school. There's too much random stuff going on. I know! This can be a 'Part 1', and then 'Part 2' shall be my plane ramblings. And the airport. Mustn't forget the airport...

Right, so this is the last you'll hear from me in a little while. I'll miss you all when I'm away and I'll be back in about 2 weeks.

BYE! I leave you with this completely amazing picture: