Nakuru Day 3

Wednesday 26.01.11

This morning we had some more stuff to do, including Tammi’s dentist appointment.  But after hitting snooze on the alarm a few times we decided that could be skipped as we weren’t that confident that the dentist would even be there!

Today being Australia Day, we promised Martha we would find some Australian food in town and bring it with us to MIA to cook.  Unfortunately Ivan had a meeting in Nairobi and couldn’t join us which was a shame!  After an hour of searching the 4 supermarkets in town, we still hadn’t located any food uniquely Australian so decided to settle for good old mashed potatos and 2 minute noodles with tomato sauce and cheese! It was a pretty funny lunch but Australian nonetheless!  Martha thought it was hilarious!

Martha asked that I take a portrait photos of all the kids as they hadn’t had any done recently and they come in handy for sponsors, the website, school and Mary and the girls back in Australia.  After 2 hours I finally managed to chase up all 43 children (and 4 extras somehow!)  and get some lovely photos of them all.  Some of the kids were much harder to photograph than others and whatever I tried I could not get Purity, Laura or Chris to smile.  The others though were easy, saying “cheeeeeese!” as soon as I pointed the camera at them.  I’m looking forward to having a better look at the photos at home and editing them to see if there are any I might like to print.  I might even look at having some blown up in black and white for my lounge room wall, whenever I manage to get another house!

We had organised with Olympus to have an Australia Day celebration so Tammi and I bought some fireworks at the supermarket, which was an unexpected novelty!  We also got some red bulls as Olympus had never tried one and we figured that it was something every Aussie has done.  He was slightly disappointed when he didn’t grow wings!

We had a dinner of rice and beans and set off our fireworks outside.  We had purchased some ‘black widows’ having really no idea what they were but the instructions said to light fuse and throw immediately.  Upon opening the packet we could see no fuses but one end had some red stuff in the end, and the other was just gunpowder.  We took a punt and lit the red end, and fortunately we did not blow ourselves up!  After two of these Olympus suggested we stop, as he had some classy neighbours and he was worried they would report gunfire to the police!