I thought I'd let you all in on the fun day I had yesterday. We got to work around 10:00, only to find that the power was out. So I sat there for awhile, waiting for it turn back on. After 20 minutes of nothing, I left Andrew on his computer that has a battery that actually works and went for a walk in Tudor (pronounced "chooda" by the locals). I love to visit the Polytechnic which is a local college/technical school. I think it goes University, college, junior college, then polytechnic (as Joseph described). On the way there I saw a bunch of guys hanging from the electrical poles and playing with wires-that was a good sign. They always make me sign a visitor log when I go through the gate because I obviously don't blend in. We've been there a few times and I've always wanted to see the library so I asked about 5 people for directions and found it. Everywhere I go people stare at me. The library was pretty sweet though. Very ghetto. They had more books than I expected but it seemed like they were all donated by the UK and all from around 1989. I had fun looking though-especially when I opened up some of their financial books and saw the CAPM model. haha.
So I toured the library for awhile and when I was leaving this guy came up to me and asked me what I was doing in there. He made me come into his office, sit down, and tell him why he was there. I thought I was in trouble, and I think I was a little bit-but he was just so excited to talk to me. He told me I had to pay 100 shillings a day to be at their library (rip off). But then he started asking me all these questions about my university and even dragged me in to meet the head librarian. I don't know why they thought I was so important. Everyone was very excited. Walking back from the Polytechnic I saw an electrician wearing Van slip-ons-the checkered ones. I told him I liked his shoes and he offered to give them to me..hahaha.
I got back to the office and we found out at our favorite "chips" place that the power was cut for the day. They announced on the news this morning. So we ditched and went to town to find a safari. We were dragged all over the place by these guys that were hustling people into safari offices. I think we found a good one though, at the Tourist Office.
To end our day, we went to Old Town which was crazy. Very tiny streets and lots of cool shops and people. I definitely lagged everywhere we went because i was taking so many pics and looking at the buildings. The funniest thing that happened was when I saw something I wanted to see and pointed to it and everyone was already walking and said we needed to go and this old guy got out of his chair and started calling me "foolish" for listening to them and not making my own decisions. He was insane. I think we are going to go back later and see Fort Jesus (built in 1593?).
Oh, and while we were waiting at the tourist office, we went into a restaurant for icecream. The owner and his son were so excited and ended up making me take pictures with them. I'll make sure to post them later. I think we're going to ditch the office and go to the beach since we've been here all morning.
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