Jina langu ni Wanjiko. Napenda chocolate chip cookies.

(My name is Wanjiko. I love chocolate chip cookies.)

Tuesday was a good day back to work in Kibera, and after work, we went to jump rope with the kids at Kibera Primary. They were all teaching me how to do it - and I was awful. I have never felt more uncoordinated, but it was a ton of fun to get to know kids, let them teach me, and laugh with them (usually as they were laughing at me). After dinner, Daisy and I made cookies from a cookie mix - God definitely heard our prayers, because Nakumatt was stocked with Betty Crocker brownie and cookie mixes! We made them on the gas stove since the electric oven is so expensive, and they came out delicious! 

Oh and I got a new name today. I've already been named Akinyi by Luo's, but a Zulu member said if I was Kikuyu I would be named Wanjiko. Not really sure what it means, but its fun to go around and say "Jina langu ni Akinyi or Wanjiko" and see people's shocked faces. They immediately ask, your a Luo? your a Kikuyu? You know Swahili?

On Wednesday, Daisy and I helped wash cars at Zulu's car wash. All of they guys enjoyed watching us do what they do every day to make a living, and one member even told us he thought 'all mzungu girls were lazy" haha. Customers and by-standers were pretty shocked and confused, but maybe it helped them to get more business. We laughed a lot with the Zulu guys today which I think is almost more important than our project. I asked a few of them what they thought was the biggest problem in Kibera and Frederick said it was tribalism but that CFK was the best organization in Kibera trying to fix it. It was also cool to hear from Ndiso that giving out money is not what Kibera needs because it doesn't last. Teaching residents new skills so they can form jobs for themselves is more important.

We brought our cookies for the Zulu guys to have today and my mind was completely blown when every single one of them looked at the cookies confused asking what they were. They had never had them before, and kept asking us what the ingredients were and what the dark spots in them were. They enjoyed them a lot, but found it hard to say 'chocolate chip cookies'. 

Today was the coldest day I've experience so far in Nairobi - probably like 50 degrees Fahrenheit. I must be becoming Kenya because even after a warm lunch, hot tea, and lots of clothes on, I still couldn't get warm!