One day i will write a memoir and it will be called "How I Came to Learn the Pricing of Hookers the World Over and Other Important Life Lessons"

**pre-order on Amazon TODAY!! Haha Just Kidding. But one day it will happen.

Ahoy loved ones! As promised, a couple photos from the forums we did at the youth centers last week. There was some 20 youths per group (they're all roughly between the ages of 18-28) and we would ask them questions about the relationship between leadership and the spread of HIV/AIDS. Then they'd all be split into groups and discuss the questions, then they would present their answers to the group. Pretty neat! They were all super nice and into the activity, so it was all fun. And now you all have an idea of what we do when we go to the youth centers! See? I don't just drink here!  

This morning i didn't have to go into work until 11, so i celebrated by making bacon and eggs for breakfast. Awesome idea at the time, but now i feel kinda sickly because it's sitting heavy on my stomach. Blah! 

But!! This weekend officially marked less than one month until i come home! Crazy huh!? Time's a-flying! In honor of this momentous occasion, i decided to compile a lil' retrospective list of the many things i've learned in Nairobi thus far. Life lessons if you will? Here goes: 

•  If you walk on the road, you will get run over. This is a fact. If you choose to walk on the sidewalk, there is still a very high probability that you will get run over. Also fact.
  
• Indeed, when crossing the road, it is probably best to say a couple Hail Mary's beforehand (and maybe say what's up to Buddha, Allah, and Yahweh...you know...just in case) 
• When a mzungu in Nairobi, it is very very very easy to become lazy and spoiled. My apartment gets cleaned and my laundry is done twice a week. Did i mention they do my dishes too? This does not bode well for my imminent return home...
• Mosquitoes are cunning little bastards and they know how to get inside mosquito nets. This is a fact.
• Fellas, if you ever find yourself in Nairobi City Center after dark and desperation calls, you can get yourself a hooker for 100 Kenyan Shillings. That's equivalent to roughly $1.40 Canadian. However, if you are a mzungu, it will not only cost you more, but she will probably steal your watch. Burdens of the white man, ya dig? (for the record, the hookers outside my house are higher class and charge some 300 shillings per romp. Don't ask me how i come to know these things)
• There's a really popular song here by a Tanzanian singer named Marlaw and its called "Pii Pii" and no one else finds it nearly as funny as me. IT'S PRONOUNCED "PEE"!!!!! Dude sings over and over and over in the song "i've been missing my baby, pee pee"!!! Oh, how my 12 year old pre-pubescent boy heart goes a flutter. 
• This abstract concept of "Africa Time" is a living, breathing thing folks. And yes, it is just as frustrating as you think (see previous post and reference to Kenya Airways)
• Sit in the last row of a matatu and you will get a concussion. This is a fact.
• It may say max. 14 passengers, but it actually seats 25. Consequently, there is no such thing as "personal space" here. 
• A 5-10 minute bus ride from City Center to my house at peak hours costs 40-50 shillings. A bus ride to Rongai, some 40 minutes outside Nairobi, costs 20 shillings. Le quoi? 
• All those old clothes that we send off to charity end up being sold on the second-hand clothing market here. Which occasionally makes for a funny sight when in 25 degree heat you see a man trying to hawk thick, Canada-proof winter jackets. 
• I love you all and miss you all very much. This is a fact.

Aaaah!! I can't wait to come home!! And this Saturday i'm off to Cape Town!! Life is good friends, life is good.

love love love love love you all!! MWAH!!