Filling the two school buses to their breaking point and then heading out on the awful Ngong road (if I die in Kenya it will be due to this death trap). All along the road were people selling threes, flowers and other things to plant in your garden, until we turned into the area of Kibera, the world’s largest slum (?). I’ve been in the slum in South Africa and that was awful but not anywhere near Kibera. Shacks everywhere as far as the eye could see. By the main road running thru it all were on one side their shops, hole pigs, cows and goats hanging in the windows of the butcher and on the other side were a wall of garbage that filled the whole area with a rutting smell. Our guide, who’s additionally our Kiswahili teacher, told us about one of the biggest problems in these slums and that is their “flying toilet”. Because of the non-existing toilets in the area people poop in plastic bags and then throw them away from their shacks, not caring whether it lands on the neighbors plants or on a by passer on the road.
After leaving Kibera we drove into a really nice area just next to it, the previous prime minister having his house in this area where the rich can watch the poor from the windows in their huge buildings. We drove through the business area and to the place where the girls who’ve been here before told us that this is where we’re going to party. From there we got to walk a bit, passing men selling tiny puppies from boxes by the busy road, some of the puppies running around so close to death. That tore my heart apart.
As an end to our buss trip we visited the most westernized shopping mal in Nairobi, the contrast to what we had seen during the rest of the day was a bit to big for me. It made me sleepy.
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