We had lunch at a lovely outdoor cafe. It was quiet and beautiful. There was a playground which had a miniature car; the car had slogans written on it. One of the slogans read "Children Obey your Parents in the Lord: For this is Right" another said "God is Love."The garden also had a metal sculpture of an alligator, you can see the picture of Katelyn (another HEART intern) and me on the alligator.
There are a number of nice restaurants in Nairobi, I have already gone to two of them. On Sunday we went to Java House. Java House is a celebrated Kenyan tradition. It is safe to have the ice there! There are several Java Houses in Nairobi, as the name indicates they serve coffee, but they serve a host of other things as well. I had a burger with a salad (salads can be dangerous. . . you can only eat them from certain restaurants). The Riverforest Cafe is more upscale than Java House, they serve steak, seafood, curries, sandwiches, quesadillas, and salads. The prices are quite similar to America, it was 950 KSH (Kenyan Shillings, the exchange rate is 80 KSH per dollar) for a steak panini and a salad. This is all to say that Nairobi is an economically diverse city, the majority of the inhabitants are very poor but jobs are available and there is an upper middle class.
I will see much more of the poverty tomorrow, I will be visiting a WEEP center in the Kibera slum; Kibera is one of the largest slums in the world.
Best,
Margaret
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