LaaDeeeeeDAH

Okey doke, well I haven't blogged in a while. Soooorrryyy! As some of you know, I've decided to not go on facebook for the month of December.. Just because. I feel like I don't need facebook, and I kinda just.. Don't care. Anyways! Yesterday was the Arusha Christmas Fair, which is basically everything it appears to be: A fair, before Christmas, where people sell stuff, buy stuff, wander around, and eat. AND it was absolutely the most white people I've seen in one place in almost 3 months. There were lots of white people in Nairobi, but.. Not in a concentrated area! Trust me, it was weird. I did a shift sitting at the Pamoja booth with Lis in the afternoon, and it was fine until about 5. See, there was an event that had been planned, so that Lis' boyfriend Felis could propose to her. She was told it was a business meeting, starting at 7, so she wanted to be leaving the fair ASAP. But I was told, "DO NOT LET HER LEAVE UNTIL 6:30." Sooooo I walked slower, I went and talked to some friends at a different booth, I nonchalantly didn't help clean up until the last minute, THEN I had to go to the bathroom to change, because I absolutely couldn't do it in the car, and the line was oh so long! I could tell she was getting a bit annoyed with me, but I didn't care, 'cause I knew she wouldn't mind when she found out why! We ended up leaving at 6:23 or something like that, and I texted Jacob that we were on our way. Praise the Lord, everything was ready, we walked in at 7, Felis popped out of nowhere (Lis had been told he was in Simanjiro for the weekend) and proposed, and we went and ate some food. Sigh. It was grand, except for the super stressful bit where I had to make us late, in a non-obvious way. I mean, I could've just sat down on the grass and said "NO. I DON'T WANNA GO." But... That would be rather conspicuous, I think.

The fair is also going on today, so after church we're heading out there to go wander around. Or maybe we'll go to the pool, and then go out there. I dunno. Either way, it means a piki ride, which is soo much better than taking a car. Allow me to explain a little about bike riding here. There's the traffic lane going one way, and then the oncoming lane, and then there are bikes, wherever they fit. So you can go in a lane if you want... Or you can drive down the centerline, a foot away from oncoming vehicles. OR you can go around the outside, on the shoulder. Actually, people do all that in normal sized vehicles too, especially daladalas. Daladala drivers are CRAZY. Makin' third lanes where there ought not to be a third lane! I suppose it makes it more entertaining to drive then... SPEAKING OF WHICH, I did. Right hand drive, folks. In the left lane. Fun stuff. It was really weird when I got to the intersection where I was supposed to turn (There was also a car waiting to turn onto the road there), because I could not for the life of me, figure out which side of that vehicle I was supposed to be on. Christine must have noticed because she said "Driver in the middle!" which helped tons, haha. One thing I must say... I sucked at parking.