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Well now, it has been a while hasn't it?
I think the last official Aaron's African Odyssey Update was about two weeks or so ago, I was in Kenya, and I had just finished telling you guys about the Chimpanzees of Mahale National Park. That was from Nairobberry I think.
Nairobi was actually really nice. In Nairobi Jon has some very close friends and we spent one night of dinner at their house. Although I am convinced I am not, his Kenyan friends are sure that I am a devil worshiper and so are most other people that I know and don't know. We also all went to club called the Florida nightclub or the New Florida nightclub. Picture a gasoline station, with a giant mushroom growing out from the center. The cap of the mushroom or the dome shape is the nightclub and it was above a gas station. Really! It was cool, good music, dancers, and lots of attractive people. Unfortunately, most of the women were prostitutes, probably about 1% were not. It was really hard to actually sit down or dance though with someone besides a man or the people you came in with.
From Night-Robberry the three of us went to Lamu by plane. It was a short flight for something between one to two hours with one stop in between. LAMU IS AWESOME!!!! I have not seen tRyantional Swahili culture before and it was really nice to see the real deal. The people were warm and friendly, but not overtly. The three of us each had our own large, breezy bedroom overlooking the ocean. A queen/king size bed, nicely decorated with wooden shelves and chairs. Quiet rooftop overlooking Lamu town, the main street, and the island across the water. And each room cost about 3 or 4 dollars a night. We drank THE MOST AMAZING MILK/FRUITSHAKES for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We chewed Mira. We had a donkey ride to a shipbuilding village. We lounged around Swahili style, etc. Local meals of tRyantional Swahili foods like Pilau, biriani, fish, etc were delish and cost about US$0.60. Lamu has got to be the most chilled out place this side of the world. I hung out with the hotel owner, the mayor of Lamu, a police officer, and their close friends everyday (3) while Jon and Ryan did their thing. We left Lamu in good spirits, knowing that this was basically the last we would see of each other after more than 3 months of traveling together. It was a nice way to end our journey together.
Back in Nairobi we decided to celebrate and part each other's companies at the CARNIVORE restaurant, my favorite meat stop in the world. If you like to eat meat, and lots of it, go to the carnivore. What you do is place a flag upright on your table to signify that you want more and take it down for breaks. We ate...cow, chicken and chicken livers, pork and pork ribs(not me), lamb, crocodile, zebra, and ostrich. It was delicious. They all some to you, as much as you like, on a sword and is carved onto your place, mmm, mmm, good.
Well, that was nice. Then I (solo) left Nairobi for Arusha to Dar to Morogoro to Mgeta. In Mgeta I visited my old friend Adauti, whom I stayed with when I studied in Tanzania 2 years ago. Adauti is doing well for himself, a new house made this time with a few concrete walls, and a tin roof. He is also investing in and making a chicken farm, a milk cow, as well as the cabbage, corn, sugar, bees, tomatoes, potatoes, onion, lettuce, and other assorted acres of produce he already grows. Oh, and he is also one of the town supervisors on soil conservation and agro-foresty (he owns a tree nursery). The entire region has no electricity or phones so we went to be early every night and I stayed for two. I think that I contacted amoebas there, but I am not exactly sure.
From Mgeta (the ganja capital of Tanzania) I went to Iringa, where I am now, and paid a visit to my mwalimu, Reese. He was my professor during my trip to Tanzania and seems to be doing well. I met his new son, Jack and also hung out with the current students of SIT Tanzania. It is quite a peaceful place. I will stay with my town homestay family tonight.
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