Chai Time
Every day between 10 and 11 it is Chai Time here at Brackenhurst. Chai is tea but it's not the same as in Canada. It's a mixture of milk, tea and perhaps some water i'm not 100% sure. Anyhow and there is always a pastry of the day too!
So yes i always bank on that.
Ok some pictures for you people. Sunday Craig and Tracy (my supervisor and his wife, they are the two people on the left of the picture) invited me to come to church with them in Nairobi and for lunch. Last week it was Craig's birthday and this is one of his favorite restaurants. The woman on the right is his mother. The boy sitting beside me is Aaron (3) and the other boy is Nathan (5). They can be quite the handful sometimes.
So yes a wonderful day.
The other picture. Ok well that is an interesting story. So Saturday night and i'm of course at home reading a book. There's really not much else to do here. So i get a knock at the door and here's these 4 girls standing there. I haven't the slightest clue why they are there or what they wanted. So i said hi and asked them who they were. Between broken english they asked to come in. I changed the topic and then they asked again if they could come in. Well i didn't want to be rude so i said sure. So they came in and sat on my couch asking if i had pictures and a camera. So at first i showed them pictures of my family, etc. They thought you guy's were all so beautiful! Then they asked again if i had a camera. So i got it and took a picture of them. They wanted me to give them the picture but it's not like i could do that. So anyhow it turns out they were at Brackenhurst for a conference about health, environment and education. We started talking about religion. They were Islamic so i asked them a few questions about what they believe. They wanted to know about Christianity too. So we had a little discussion about the two religions. Then they asked for money. Well i kind of figured they would ask that eventually. I explained that i give money at church and that's my way of helping people. I don't think they really understood that. Needless to say they did leave. Afterwards i thought perhaps they were trying to case the place out but they were young girls 14 and 16. I still don't know what brought them to my door, that will be a mystery to me.
posted by Sarah at 10:40 AM
4 Comments:
Thanks for the pics, keep em coming! Strange that those girls came to your door like that, i supose that they thought if you were from the west that you would have money to give...
Glad to see you sometimes have company when you eat. I think i will be going to Rock City for thanksgiving, hope you have a good one.
A knock in the night huh? I don't get it? Here you keep on talking about how there's no one there and then Voila! God sends you four little Angels. For the life of me I can't see why you didn't set em down and make them a cup of tea or something and play a game of rumicub or one of those other games you are always trying to foist on the rest of us. You could even have cheated since they wouldn't have known the rules anyway. Seriously though, I think it must have been fascinating. Did you ask them what their names were? It must have been scary for them if you think about it. They must have stood outside your door and dared eachother till one of them worked up the nerve to knock on the door. How cool is that. Wow.
Health, environment and education...sounds to me you had a little bit of each of those happening right on your terra firma. I sense some sadness in their eyes.
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