Hello Punda Milias, Sup in da hood? Speaking of punda milia (Kiswahili for zebra - literally, donkey with stripes), our Kiswahili teacher told us an amusing story yesterday. One of his students was trying to talk about a zebra, but instead of saying punda milia, he accidentally said punda malaya. Malaya means prostitute. Needless to say, Katherine and I have been calling each other donkey prostitutes ever since. Not very complimentary! Well, I will divide the time since I last wrote a blog into week one and week two. Or ‘week shitehouse’ and ‘week super-dooper’. The first week was a terrible one, because we both came down with a very bad case of conjunctivitis (it seems like every second person in Kilifi has had it). Katherine got it first - in a very very bad
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