Nyeri

The last weekend was one of the saddest and happiest at the same time. On Friday was the funeral of Rose’s mother. Half of our team went to her home village to support her. It was so hard to see her broken hearted as she has become so dear to my heart. I had been only in one funeral before that but it was definitely very different from the one in Estonia. The whole village was there, even the people who didn’t know her personally. I thought it was really nice tradition and I could really feel the love around.

I stayed there with Rose and Rahel (her roommate from Switzerland) until Sunday. I was so happy that she welcomed me to stay there with her. I really admired her strength these two days. How she was able to show around her village and take me to see her family and friends with happiness. I loved seeing her smiling and laughing and thanked God for giving me the opportunity to be there for her.

Nyeri itself was B-A-UTIFUL! It felt like being in the dzungel. Everything was so green and big. There were lots of banana, coffee, papaya and avocado trees. I loved it! You could basically pick up a banana from a tree and eat it, how cool is that. Their sugarcane was also very sweet and really long, obviously everything grew there way better than in our base in Ukambani (Kamba land lol). Some of the coolest things that I saw the first time in my life were chameleons. There were quite many of them and they all changed colors like crazy. Couldn’t help myself holding one of these bad boys for some time :)

Oh and I also saw the biggest freaking turkey in my life! Who knew that turkeys look so ugly lol. It was really nice of Rose’s uncle to show around his chamba and besides the turkey I also saw some bearded goats, village kids and a nice neighbor gave us some avocados straight from his tree. What a nice people Kikuyus are :) I think I forgot mentioning that most of the people living in Nyeri are called Kikuyu. One of the 42 tribes of Kenya. So far my favorite :) I even tried carrying a bag they way they do it, on my back tied with kanga around my forehead. So much fun!

Unbelievable how many places there are in the world that I had no idea of. I can only be thankful to God for letting me experience these places and see new faces. Asante sana, Baba wangu!

“Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.” (S. Johnson)