Welcome to Kakamega

Hi everyone, first off I'd like to apologize for taking so long between posts, hopefully this won't become a pattern, I also think it's impotant to let you know that if I use any punctuation that would end a sentence the program thinks that I've finished qwriting and ends my posts which means this will probably end up looking a bit odd, I'll be using * for periods* The end of training was a lot of fun, difficult, and it's a bit lonely now not seeing all of the friends I made and my host family, but I really like the people I am working with now* One of the last things I did in Nairobi, the day of our swearing in actually, was to buy a guitar* We had to wait an hour for a taxi and then go on a bit o a wild goose chase looking for a shop with decent guitars but we finally found one* Bargaining for it was pretty funny, I ended up getting a pretty good discount because a friend of mine broke a string when trying to tune it and the sales lady was convinced that this meant that the entire guitar was now broken* What she didn't know was that my wonderful family had already sent me three sets of guitar strings and that my plan was to restring the entire guitar* I wasn't able to get a case or the guitar, so I was walking around Nairobi carrying a guitar that was down a string until one of my friends started carrying it and tried to serenade people (I say tried because without one of the strings the guitar was horibly out of tune)* We then crammed the four of us and two guitars into a cab to head back to our hotel, which took awhile due to traffic and getting lost but we called ahead and they made sure there was food left for us when we arrived* I love my guitar, I have a fair amount of free time during which my primary activities are studying Luhya and practicing the guitar so I'm making progress* Kakamega is a big town by Kenyan standards* It has three main roads, several large supermarkets, a large market and many government buildings because it is the regional capital* There is also a hotel with a swimming pool, I hope I get a chance to swim soon (maybe I can even teach water aerobics)* I enjoy the walk to town, it's around 2km and it has helped me get a sense of the community I will be a part of for the next two years* Today I was proud of myself for going to a shop an buying milk and eggs entirely in Luhya* I have another Luhya test in about 10 days so I'm trying to practice whenever possible* I enjoy working with my organization, I also like that I have already been able to become involved* I literally live at my job which has its pros and cons, but on the whole I'd say I like it* I'm going to have to go because my phone battery is about to die, but I will try and write more soon