have spent a lot of time in kibera this week. kibera is africas second largest slum with about a million people living there. and we have walked allllll over that place.
nick is one of the guys who we went to pokot with last week, the one who did most of the planting. he is a carpenter who lives in and has his workshop in kibera. he is also very very good at kenyan time. between us and him, nobody is on time, or at least it hasnt worked out in the first 4 days of meeting with him. nick is also very interested in leadership, and he trusts God in everything he does.
this past week we have had a few long and very good conversations on love, marriage, and dating. part of the reason they are so long is because very little applies between our two cultures as to the problems that occur in relationships. and that takes a while to get through. nick is very good at talking, but gets on such a once track mindset when he is that it is hard to slow him down sometimes.
he left us the assignment one day of making cross joints at his workshop as he disappeared for about 4 hours. it was a good day. its kind of cool to have spent enough time in parts of kibera that we can navigate it alone.
also decided we need to get to mombasa somehow this week. not sure when, but it should happen
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