My days in Nairobi are drawing to a close, as are my days in Kenya. Tomorrow I head off on Safari and then back to the States! I can't believe how time has flown - and yet it feels like so long ago when I boarded my flight to come here. I am really going to miss it here! It's funny how quickly a place can become familiar and comfortable. I am looking forward to home though too - seeing everyone, having some foods I've been craving (like berries - I cannot WAIT for blueberries), go on a run without dust coating my lungs - all the small luxuries of life.

These past few days have actually been really relaxing - I did a little bit of transcribing, walked around the neighborhood here, drank some coffee. Hmmmm, so nice. I did venture downtown Nairobi - I needed to go to the Jetlink office and get a refund on my plane ticket that I didn't use (I originally had a flight from Kisumu to Nairobi for tonight before I decided to come earlier and take public). Anyway, I had to go into their office to do it, so downtown I went! It took probably a total of 2 hours to get to and from downtown and I was maybe in the actual office for 10 minutes, but whatever. It was something to do, right? And now I've ridden a matatu by myself in Nairobi - which actually was NOT that big of a deal. Downtown was CRAZY though - definitely did not have any desire to spend an extended amount of time there!

Went to an Egyption restaurant for dinner last night - wasn't sure what Egyptian food actually is, but (at least on their menu) it was pretty similar to other middle eastern food - hummus, falafal, samosas, etc... They had chicken sharwarma and then some other dishes I don't remember. So good, though. And we got to sit on these big couches and just lounge - I totally could have taken a nap afterwards. Not sure if that's the point though!

Okay, I will make sure to post when I get back to the states and show you all of my awesome safari pictures!