Jambo!
Today we leave Nairobi for our base location for work which is a town called Machakos. The first 4 days have been a whirlwind of activity; visiting all the clients, starting our research, getting to know one another and sapling the local cuisine and beer! Nairobi is a beautiful city with friendly people and buzz that is inescapable - even if the traffic is a nightmare!
We are going to be welcomed by the District Commissioner (DC) into Machakos, as I believe it is a pretty big deal that we are here. IBM are even talking to the preses to brief them on our activities! I am looking forward to getting to and exploring what Machakos has to offer but it already has a lot to live up to!
Each of our sub teams now has a Swahili name:
Team 1 = Simba (Lion)
Team 2 = Duma (Cheetah) <---------- MY TEAM
Team 3 = Twiga (Giraffe)
Collectively we are known as "One Blue Tribe"!
P.S. In something totally unrelated, on the way home last night there was a man standing in the middle of the road in the traffic jam trying to sell a box of kittens!
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Really liking the team names. Do the Kenyans also have a birth name like they do in Ghana (named after the day they are born at) My Ghanaian name is Abena...
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Hey Freddie! I don't think they have names like that but we were in a Masai village today and they are called 'Son of' and their fathers name. A lot of the people of here have western names.
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