Hi All

Long time, no write, story of my life I suppose. Anyway, as I now have internet in my house, I will be able to start writing much more regulary :D

I have now been in Kenya for five months, and even though I still have some problems relating on a personal level with Kenyans, I have started to get used to how things work down here. An excellent example of this was when I today entered a mutato (wrecked up minibusses, who constitute much of public transport in Nairobi). It was late, as I had been chilling with some AIESEC guys at their preferred spot, the cantina of the cental police station, and I was walking together with a few friends. We got to the mutatus, and as usual there was quite a bit of crowding. I push myself in, but in this process I feel a slight tickeling near my left pocket. When seated in the mutatu, I feel at my pocket and finds that my phone is gone, out of the window, I see a woman disappearing down the steet. Now, what I could have done in this situation was to scream up, and push my way out of the mutatu, and try to catch the woman. When you have been in nairobi for some time you do however know that that is not how things work. The sensible thing to do is to sit back, reflect on your own stupidity in regards to taking care of your stuff, and exchange a few words with the people around you about the problems regarding theft on the street and the Mzungu effect (Mzungu means white person aka. white semigod with unlimited money, and applies to all light coloured people in Kenya). Even at this moment I am not sad or grupmy about it - down here it is part of life. I was stupid, and suffered the consequenses - in Nairobi they are always there, no room for naivity.

Last weekend I visited the national park with a few interns. Even though we could not go into the actual park (the tourbus was apparently booked by a group of sportsperformers), we had a wonderfull time checking out the fancey animals at the safari-walk, which basically is a big zoo with all the animals of the savannah. Quite a cool zoo though, as all the animals is living in something that quite closely resemple their national habitats. Last time I visited the park however, we had quite a cool guide. Partly because he showed a genuine interest in the animals and what he was sharing, but mostly because he let us into the cage of the parks five year old leopard, which have been raised there since she was a cub :D

Kristian the Cheetah Tamer ;)

Will keep you updated with my many adventures and challenges!

SmilesNhugs,
Kristian