While the first bit of this post is a bit delayed, it deserves to be the first thing mentioned because it was just so unbelievably cute and exciting - bottle feeding baby animals. Literally a dream come true. The 3 babies I was assigned to feed were the giraffe, baboon, and bush baby. Here is me feeding the baby giraffe named Theresa :)
I also fed the little bush baby and baby baboon. At the end of this whole feeding affair I certainly gained a few more furry friends :P (food is always the way to someone's heart)
In addition to all of this excitement, me and several other interns attended a free orchestra concert in Uhuru park in downtown Nairobi (with a famous Italian conductor, Maestro Riccardo). The vice president of Kenya even flew in on a helicopter to see the performance! Afterwards, we went to the Masai Market which is a huge open air market where the Masai people sell their goods (literally hundreds of stands). It was a bit overwhelming, but there were so many beautiful handmade crafts, jewelry, carvings, etc. Most of their crafts involve incredible bead work with vibrant colors just making the market an amazing site.
Then today at my host family's house we made an unbelievable Sunday feast. There are 3 other interns here at the moment (from South Africa, Austria, and Singapore) so we made a big international potluck meal. We had pasta carbonara, pork/fish meatball soup, chapatis, potato salad, roast chicken, minced beef, tom yum kai soup, and so much more. We were all absolutely stuffed after! There was also an abundance of good wine (South African wine) to just top off an amazing feast.
Now it's siesta time and we are all about to collapse on the couches to watch a movie, and little William, my host family's 1 and 1/2 year old son is contentedly settling in with me :) What a fantastic Sunday.
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