arrival

another new city... we've all been so warned and re-warned about the dangers of walking in the streets and how we'll get robbed that we can hardly enjoy walking around, but really it's just a small, bustling city. amazingly cheap - I paid $1.40 for breakfast. Nice. Lunch was much more extravagant - $4.00. So far the only Swahili I've used is "hapana" - no. People keep shoving things to buy into my face. hapana to the batiks! hapana to the fake perfume! hapana to the beaded spears! I'll buy some but not today - I don't even have a house to store them in.

Internet time is about to run out, so I can't stay long.