Kenya!

So much to say, and so little internets! This is the first time I've had unlimited internet since I arrived in Kenya so forgive my silence. Kenya is wonderful, and I've moved to Kilifi for my new job. I've started a blog, so you can read in detail what I'm going to summarize below. It's still rough - first drafts, and I haven't decided the privacy level yet, since some things are kind of sensitive but I just wanted to tell you guys about three things:
http://kilifiadventures.blogspot.com/


1. Kilifi is one of the poorest districts in Kenya. Hence Komaza, the non-profit. But there are ridiculously ostentatious resorts juxtaposed with mud huts!! And coz the 10 or so Komaza staff are expats, they tend to hang out in the touristy mzungu (white ppl) places. So I feel so guilty. Especially because I am Kenyan, and they're all American (and Canadian and English) and...

2. Yikes, its like society all over again! What have I gotten myself into? These 10 or so guys all graduated from HYP, Stanford, brown etc so they all seem to have that smarmy entitled feeling I hated in society. They're in Africa so they have some level of selflessness/adventurousness... But right now its all feeling very calculated, like this is their year off after working for Bain and before applying to Harvard Business School. (Which is literally what one girl here is doing). So yesterday we hired a van and went to Mombasa (2nd largest Kenyan city, a coastal tourist destination) to party. We had gin and tonics and vodka-redbulls, and were obnoxiously loud as we played drinking games in an almost all-white bar. So this is deja vu. I hope as I get to know them better, at least a couple turn out to be sincere about non-profit work.

3. One of the guys here is gay, and yesterday we may have been at a gay bar, which is extremely unusual for Kenya. Investigating this! There are also these weird sexual currents within the group, mostly surrounding the founder guy, a Brown '04. He's sleeping with one of the girls and was being bicuriously touchy-feely with the third guy in the group, and I think that came out only coz he was really drunk. So it was a really awkward first night (maybe just for me coz I wasn't as drunk as the others - clearly senior year raised my tolerance to ridiculous levels) and I'm curious as to what the dynamics are when ppl are sober. I'm the only one awake at this point, its about 10am.

Ok sweeties, love to hear more from you guys.