Weekend Adventures

I have a big message saved on a zip drive, but the computer that I am at doesn't have a place to plug it in, so hopefully tomorrow I can post that one! This weekend has definitely been interesting. On Friday, we only had one class, so a group of some of the MSID students and I went to an animal orphanage. We saw a lot of baby animals that had been abandoned, mostly monkies and leopards and other cat type animals. I got to pet a cheetah!! My group got to go in the cage with 2 cheetahs, I'm not exactly sure how safe that actually was, but we all made it out alive. That night, we went out dancing, which was really fun until about half of the people in my group realized that their phones were gone. Pickpocketing is a big problem in Nairobi. Luckily I was really careful with my phone, so I still have mine. Then, the next morning, I found out that that night, my host family's store was robbed! There are some really great people in Nairobi, but unfortunately, there is a lot of crime here as well, because of the large disparity between the rich and poor. There are so many people struggling to survive day to day. Yesterday, I went downtown with some of my friends to do some shopping and today I went to church with my host dad and then have just been doing homework, nothing too exciting. Tomorrow we have the day off! because its a public holiday for the celebration of the Muslim holiday Ramadan.