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Have a good trip Merc!
Take care - we'll be here when you get back!! bye Merc 
all Jambo,
The weather here is sunny and great (25-30C) - haven't had much time to enjoy it yet, though! I've been busy planning all the details for my masters project. I've had meeingst with my two advisors at the Ministry of Health (who are very helpful and has been very good at briefing me about all the details), spend time (and 300USD!) to get a 'research permit' at the Ministry of Education and on monday we'll start arrangeing meetings with all the people I need to interview before I'm going into the country to do my field work...
I got my own apartment here in Nairobi - it's close to a big mall (where I found this internet cafe) and it's a nice place.
So far I've seen most of the city by car (when I'm being driven from the apartment to the ministry and so on) which is quite the experience! The Kenyan way of driving is - honestly - absolutely crazy!!! The state of the roads here is horrible (holes 30cm deep is not unusual), but that doesn't stop people from driving like they were beeing chased by someone or something! Before I arrived I read in my guide book that the 'matatus' (mini busses) were only for people that didn't fear death - now I know why!!! They drive around with windscreens so broken I doubt the driver can see very much of what actually going on in the traffic, with open doors (the car being so broken they can't close!) and people standing on the outside of the car where the door was supposed to be and - of course - they drive on the sidewalk! I very much appriciate that my advisor and the driver from the Ministry have taken me around town - I'm not going to try public transportation here, thats for sure!
How are you doing? Sorry I haven't replied to you in a really long time, but I've been really busy and then the computers have also been out of order!
I've had so many experiences in the last few weeks - earthquake, meeting so many people, visits to tea factory and to a hospital than don't run the same drug supply system as we do here... That hospital was terrible, I tell you!!! I'm getting used to run-down, dirty health facilities but this one tops them all - it was so overcroweded with 2-3 patients in every bed, even some on the floor!!! In addition they were constantly lacking drugs and at the moment also gloves - imagine running a hospital like that... We don't have the same problems here - all patients have their own bed, and some wards at the hospital are actually more or less empty plus we never miss any drugs, because of the special drug suply system we have here (the one the Belgians financed - the system I'm studying)...
My other experiences - the earthquake! A very strange feeling, I've never experienced an earthquake before... everything was shaking and there was a lot really loud noise! Thanksfully that was all that happend - no one got hurt or anything!
I've also visited a tea factory!
In the easter holidays I'll be going to the Masai Mara game reserve with a Danish medicine student that is working in Kenya - looking very much forward to that!!!
And I've been updated about news from the U2 camp (Thanks! )... 
) be going back to Nairobi, stay there for a week and then its back to Copenhagen! 
Looking forward to seeing more pics, and thanks for these, Merc!! 
greety said:Very nice pics Dorthe!!
Sorry I got her so late, I seemed to have missed your follow-up here. You could have told me dear
but as I said, verrry nice
Can't wait for the rest.
btw, do you have pics form the inside of your luxurious hotel??
I'll remember to tell you next time!
but such is life in the wild.
) feel free to post a request - there's a good chance I've taken a pic of it! greety said:btw, do you have pics form the inside of your luxurious hotel??
...this was what it looked like from the inside:
) and hectic city like Nairobi I travelled half way across Kenya to the most rural of the rural places you could ever imagine, where they had not seen white people since the Belgians left two years ago... I honestly don't know what I had expected, but I was very, very positively surprised and despite all the strange things that have happend and all the delays and everything I loved it! The place, the people - everything, but especially the people! Kenyans are amazing people... It has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience and theres no doubt in my mind that I'll go back and visit Kenya and more of Africa one day...
Some days when most of the children from an entire school gathered around me I felt like a famous rock star named "Mzungu"! ("Mzungu" means "white person" in Kiswahili and the children shouted it after me all the time) The kids were just wonderful! 
