This weekend turned out quite differently then I thought it would. Yesterday for the most of the day I just sat around trying to download America's Next Top Model on my laptop and eating cookies when suddenly I heard the door bell ring. I went to answer the door and three 20 something guys were standing there. I didn't recognize any at first but then I remembered Maseno who I met the first day I was here. He was with me when I went to that really gross Ethiopian restaurant when I first got here. He said he was on this side of town with his friends so he decided to stop by. We all chatted for a while and Maseno suggested that we hang out today and that he could just crash at the house tonight. In the morning we finished watching Romeo and Juliet (the one with Leonardo Dicaprio and one of the best soundtracks ever) which we had started the night before but didnt finish because he was to tired. When he picked Romeo and Juliet he said that he didn't know the story just that it was a romance. I never met anyone who didn't know the ending, I knew the ending before I saw the movie and I was like 7. At the end he was surprised that they both you know kill themselves but I think he missed the romantic tragic part of it. After the movie we started talking about Merchant of Venice the only Shakespeare play he's read and me made a comment about how Shylock is greedy and a villain and I could not let a comment like that pass. I calmly told him that Shylock was completely justified in his "revenge" and he should have gotten his pound of flesh from Antonio because he was racist and you can only put up with so much. We ended up arguing about it for like thirty minutes and I am happy to report that I won the argument. Shylock is again proven to be the only redeemable character in that play.
Soon after that we caught a Mutatu and headed into town. I was just blindly following him around but I still managed to have a good time. We got off near the University and walked to the Nairobi Arboretum which is this patch of forrest in the city. It was so green and beautiful and I saw some MONKEYS!!!!!! They were just walking around and I was so excited. There was even a baby one on the back of its mother. He must of thought I was so lame because it was all I could talk about for the rest of the day. Whenever there was even the slightest pause in the conversation I was like OH MY GOODNESS THOSE MONKEYS WERE GREAT!! They were though, they are the first wild animals I have ever seen besides the lizards I sometimes see wandering around the house and these camels I saw walking down the street. After that we walked around the university and we went to hang out in his dorm where he showed me the weirdest videos. He showed me this anti-Obama propaganda film and a video of some people being beaten and burned alive because they were believed to be witches or involved in the occult. It was weird and sad, I couldn't believe that I was watching that. Then after he fixed my phone ( I couldn't receive calls) we grabbed some lunch and I came back. I took the matatu back and I sat in the front with the driver and even though it is like the only seat that is roomy it is the worst place to be. I had a front seat view of all the cars and people he almost hit and I kept on pressing my foot on the ground like I was breaking. The matatu I was in was big like a bus and it just made it own lane when there was a little bit of traffic and he drove on the sidewalk to do it but I survived and that is the most important thing.
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