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| The African Baobab tree! |
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| "Butter" |
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| Kara and I pretending to be Masai's, lol! |
Today I went to Shoppers to get groceries to make dinner for tonight. At boona baana I helped E with her homework and then we did some colouring together. B's baby was there today so I got to play with him a bit. The kids are so good with babies, A is a natural when it comes to nurturing and being motherly to them and Am had her baby sister over the other day and is so responsible and grown up for her age when it comes to looking after her. Am is probably about 7 or 8 (Chai's age) but has the responsibility of looking after her 6 month old baby sister. The mom was at her home and Am was at boona baana with her sister and no adult supervision. This is a normal custom in Africa, but in Canada we are so concerned when younger children even hold babies, we have to be right by their side and are paranoid they will drop them or something. Here, young children are given the huge responsibility of completely taking care of the younger siblings. She was great with her so clearly children are more responsible with some things than we give them credit for, just different situations and cultures create certain maturities. Made appy’s for dinner tonight, bruschetta, seven layer dip, veggies and dip, egg rolls, crackers and cheese, and mini sandwiches….it was really good, then we all watched tangled and ate cinnamon buns that jenn and sienna made.
Tuesday June 21, 2011 – Kariakoo
Today we went to Kariakoo market, it’s a local market that the locals go to. It was so packed and chaotic there, people everywhere, stores everywhere, cars weaving in and out of the small streets and people bugging you to buy their stuff. I found some cool African woven bowls there but other than that there wasn’t much for us to buy; mostly just fruit, vegetables, clothes, some jewellery, and fabric. It was really neat to experience it though. At times I felt a bit worried that we might get something stolen from us, but wasn’t too worried because we were in a big group and we all just kept our purses in front of us. It is very common for people to get pick pocketed there though.
In the middle of the market there was this big pile of garbage just sitting there, I guess they just used it as sort of like a dump. They don’t really have garbage dumps here or a good disposal system. I was shocked to learn that garbage is burned or thrown in the drain! Drains on the side of the road are filled with garbage. Also there is no recycling of water bottles and they do reuse glass pop and beer cans but other than that there’s no recycling.
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