We have finally settled in Green Hills Hotel in Nyeri, which will be our home for the next 3½ weeks. The hotel is ½ km out of town. Even though the town has 200.000 citizens there is only a few roads with tarmac the rest is dirt roads. We went for a run this morning a 7 o'clock, up and down the hills in an altitude of 1800 meters. We met at lot of children on their way to school and they were all shouting "hello Mzungo" - hello white - raising their hands for a high five. We also went for aerobics in the hotel today - with mr Speedy Gonzales. I have never done aerobics at a pace like that - still in 1800 meters..... I was breathing my lungs out.
Our project is progressing well. Today we met with the head postmaster of Nyeri - Mr Mulundi. He was so happy to have us visiting him. He offered tea, showed us around the postoffice and gave us a lot of important information for our project. The headmaster was very surprised to learn that we have mail boxes in front our houses. He said that this would never work in Kenya as people would be stealing the mail - "very thing will get broken in Kenya" he said.
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| Posta Kenya - bike |
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| 1 month of paperwork at the postoffice |
We have also met the Provincial Commissioneer and the District Commissioneer. There are only 8 provinces in Kenya - so the PC is a man of importance. Therefore we were very pleased that he wanted to meet with us.
