Back to Naivasha. I spent last night and this morning at a friend's house in Langatta. It's a really pretty estate that she lives in -she gave me a tour round it and the neighbouring area. I also got to see where the famous Carnivore restaurant is -- I really want to eat at that place after hearing about it for the past four years! There is a water park opposite as well and since the weather is absolutely GORGEOUS I want to get myself down there at some point. Yes the weather, the weather is BEAUTIFUL -- I get to wear T-shirts… without a coat… and I'm still hot! This is real sun - not the fake British sun when you look out of the window and see the sun shining but then feel like you're stepping into a fridge when you step out of the door. The Fuhomi peeps picked me up at around 2 p.m. and we drove down to Naivasha. Kenya is really green at the moment -- the land on either side of the highway is so lush. We stopped to buy roasted maize – around 10 guys mobbed the car and shoved maize cobs in my face yelling in Kikuyu. Don't you just love an enthusiastic salesman?! I got to see most of the team – the interns seem to have grown in confidence a lot and they clearly have gelled a great deal as a team. It bodes well for the teambuilding sessions I’m hoping to hold over the next couple of weeks. I got to see my old neighbours as well and their kids -- it's weird to hear one of them, Njoki, talking to me in English. She’s pretty fluent these days. I'm ashamed of myself – oh to be bilingual! I'm not really up-to-date on the politics at the moment -- all I caught was one news item about Kenyan MPs who despite being the highest paid legislators in the world, are refusing to pay tax. They refer to tax as a form of "philanthropy" and say they would like to give their "charity" directly to organisations of their choice rather than through taxes! These people are sick -- an ordinary man earning around £75 a month is being taxed so much that at the end he only has around £40 disposable income whilst MPs refuse to pay tax of £25 per month! One MP even said that MPs didn't want to have to live in the same way that their constituents had to live! I suppose human corruption has no limits but this really took the biscuit.
Later on in the evening....the dogs outside are barking like crazy. I have a natural instinct that tells me if they're barking there must be some kind of danger which is ridiculous as they apparantly bark all night and they are great security guards. Glad I packed the earplugs
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