Tonight another volunteer is coming and tomorrow Natasha, is coming back. I am so nervous a hundred things are constantly running through my head. I feel slightly overwhelmed as I think of how things will change and all the things that I need to do to get ready. This morning Harriette took me grocery shopping at Nakumatt which was the nicest thing ever because since all the food was thrown out when the power was out there was nothing in the fridge. I spent way more money than I wanted to getting a whole shopping cart full of food but when I put everything away you could barely tell I bought anything, everything still looks empty. When I came back from the grocery store I started cooking some chapatis. I am going to have dinner ready for Rosa Maria when she comes, chapatis and peas. Yesterday at work I asked Rebecca to help me write out recipes for everything so I can make it on my own. The first part of the chapatis went very well I had no problems whatsoever. Janet, Harriette's nanny came and checked them and said they look good which was a relief. Now the dough just has to settle and in a couple of hours I will make them so they will be hot and fresh when she comes. For the past half hour or so I have been trying to decorate Rosa Maria's room. Natasha was planning on being here before the other volunteers came so she can buy beds and desks for their room but because Rosa Maria is coming early nothing was bought. So now she gets stuck with a couple mattresses on the floor. I thought of getting the end table and lamp from the third floor and the chair from my room and putting it in hers but it still ends up looking like a room in a psych ward. So I have been taping some pictures up to liven up the room a little, it helped but not as much as I would have liked. Now all I need to make a big sign that says Karibu which means welcome in Kiswahili and finish cooking. I am trying my hardest to make everything as nice as possible because I don't know her and Natasha isn't here. I hope that she likes everything. I just hope the cooking and everything goes off without a hitch and she ends up being nice. I have never lived with someone I didn't know before and I hope that she isn't mean but then I think how could she be mean she is coming to volunteer in Kenya for three months which not everyone would do. Starting now I am offically starting to think positive, everything will be okay, no everything will be great and this will just make my experience even better. Now I just have to start believing it.
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