Here is my schedule:
Monday and Wednesday: wake up at 5:45, leave apartment at 6:45 and get on some form of transportation, either one of Nairobi's bizarre buses or a matatu (I'll write a post about matatus soon) by 7:15. I get into down town Nairobi by 7:45 and catch a City Hoppa (one of Nairobi's bus companies) and get to my internship with Action Now Kenya (I'll post about this as well) at 8:30. I work there until 4:30 with a break for tea and a break for lunch. I then retrace my steps back to my apartment and get back around 6:30.
Traffic lengthens the commute. I'm trying to take pictures that will show the chaos of Nairobi traffic but without a helicopter I'm not sure I can really give you a good idea of what it's like.
On Tuesday and Thursday I wake up at 6:30 and leave the apartment by 7:25 so that I can walk to the AU Abroad program office and arrive in time for my 8:00 Kiswahili class. After class I catch a matatu to down town Nairobi and catch the shuttle service to USIU (the university I'm attending here). My first class, African Authors Seminar, runs from 11 to 12:40. My next class, International Economics and Trade, runs from 1:20 to 3. I then catch the shuttle back to down town Nairobi and take a matatu to Westlands, my neighborhood, arriving back around 5:30.
Again on Friday I have Kiswahili at 8 and afterwards I have Politics and Culture in Kenya, which is really a class on the process of urbanization in Nairobi, it runs from 9:30 to 12:30.
To put it succinctly I've been quite busy. I usually fall asleep against my will some time around 10 while trying to catch up on some reading, to the endless amusement of my wonderful roommates.
More blog to come!
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