Updateee

Sooo alhamdulillah my flights were good and after a very tiring journey i am enjoying mombasa!

Pic of me looking exhausted on the plane!!!

I met some pretty cool peeps on the plane from london to nairobi. There was a group of university kids going to climb mt. kilimanjaro. And i met a girl who was going to visit her friend in Nairobi who is doing research about cellphone use in rural africa.
When I got to Nairobi airport I had to stand in line an wait to be fingerprinted and then I got my visa.
Then I had a 2 hour wait in Nairobi airport (which is pretty sketch--lol).
Then I got my flight to Mombasa and when i arrived my cousins were waiting there to pick me up. Mombasa airport is sooo cuteee-- it looks like a little resort-- all the walls are white and there are little windows and its super cuteee.

So everyone keeps asking me what my first impression of Mombasa was-- truthfully i was like o woww i just landed in a ghetto--- the outskirts of mombasa near the airport are pretty sketch. But once you get used to it, the city is so beautiful!
Their way of life is so different than life in North America and Europe!! Everyone is so chill and relaxed. They have 2-3 hours off for lunch and everyone goes home for lunch. Their "traffic" is like 2 cars on the road. lol.

Anywayyy so my cousins have a hugeee mansion by the ocean!! I fell like I'm at a resort!!! When I wake up in the morning the first thing i smell is the smell of the ocean breeze coming through the window =D

So my first two days here in Mombasa, my cousin Summaya and I took  a Henna application course which was pretty cool! In he morning we went to the course and in the evenings we just chilled out and went to the beach and stuff.
The course we took was in the middle of the old side of mombasa. My aunt showed us where my grandma used to live and where she grew up and stuff. It amazes me how they adjusted from this african culture to canada!!

O and omg we have to sleep under mosquito nets! they're so cool!! but they kind of faill at keeping me out of reach of the mosquitoes b/c i have bites everywhere!!!

Yesterday (thursday) in the evening my cousins and I walked along the ocean and we went to get some "mogo"--  a local specialty here--- I think in english its called casava.
Anywayyy so we walked down these cliffs to sit by this water and these two chinese dudes come and sit by us and they're like "can we take your picture? you're so beautiful? I want to tell my friends that your my girlfriend"-- i was soooo creeped out and was about to leave but then my cousin Sabera decided to talk to the dudes-- well one of them the other didnt speak english. So the dude came from china to mombasa "to start a business and find love"... creeeeeep much!? And then he's all "I'm single"-- And then the other dude started singing chinese love songs to us-- bahhahahaahahaha and then we left... o and he gave us his business card, his name was Frank Ghao or something. lol.

im now covered in mosquito bites, better go hide under m mosquito net!!--- hope the malaria pills workkk!!! =/