I was quite annoyed by the rains down in Aaaaa-frica

On Thursday, we visited the place Stefanie volunteered at for half a year: The Nest. To get there, we had to ride a Matatu from Nairobi to Limuru. It took a over an hour and the ride was not necessarily super comfortable, but we made it for just 50c per person.
Upon arriving in the town, it started raining. You should think you wouldn't need to bring an umbrella with you in Africa! We considered buying one in the local, tiny supermarket but it was $7 we could spend better. So we just stood under a roof and waited for it to pass.
To get from Limuru's centre to the Children's home, we hired piki-piki, motorbike taxis. Of course mine broke down halfway there on a lonely road and I had to awkwardly stand next to the biker while he was trying to fix it. Luckily another one came by and I just asked him to hop on. When I finally arrived at the nest, my friends had already called yet another piki-piki to go look for me. Well I only got temporarily lost on a lonly road in Kenya once for a few minutes, that's actually better than expected!
Since it had stopped raining, we decided to take a little walk through the outskirts of Limuru.

Those are tea plantations!

 

The entrance to the Nest

The kids were really excited about us taking pictures of them for some reason

Since it was Stefanie's last day at the nest, they organized a little goodbye party for her. As her friends, Susanne, Teresa and I as well as Stefanie's fellow volunteer Pauline were also invited. We even got our own table!

After speeches, many, many speaches, and lovely words of gratitude and goodbye, we, and of course the kids, got to eat cake. Then they showed us some very energetic traditional singing and dancing. It was a lot of fun!

After that, we hung out there and just talked and played with them for some time

Susanne with some of the kids

 

The classroom

On Friday we visited the other part of the project: the Halfway House and the baby village. Since the Nest is focussed on children whose mothers are in jail, it's important to reunite them in a safe, controlled environment once the mothers are released. The babies were quite adorable, but still enforced the fact that I'm not really fond of them. Don't get me wrong, the kids in Limuru were alright, but the babies were just.. laying around screaming or sleeping and I was scared to break them if I touched them. Babies are way too much pressure. At least the older kids can walk.
On our way back to the hotel, we visited a Maasai Market at a mall. I bought some really cool stuff: A Kalaha-game, some elephant-print pants and adorable small stone elephants. It's all relatively cheap there if you know how to barter.
When we got home, we had to pack and organise our luggage and go to bed early, because in the morning we would get picked up for our Safari! Spoiler alert, it was awesome!