okay, so the food is not bad actually. there is a lot of starchy foods such as potatoes, rice, ugali (maize flour), and other veggies such as cabbage, kale, carrots, peas. . . not a lot of meat right now because of rift valley fever, but they like lamb, cow, and chicken. everyone thinks i am crazy for being vegetarian though because they don't understand the health aspect and they don't understand that i have chickens and cows as pets! they don't have many pets here. dogs are pretty much stray scavengers and the dogs as pets are kept in small cages, never let out, and fed scraps and left overs. that is actually pretty sad. weather - well in nairobi it is hot, but were i am it is a little higher elevation so it
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