Are there any other Wendy's here?

John (pastoer of the chirch we visited on Sunday): Would Wendy just like to come up and say hello?
Wendy (looks around in the futile hope that there is another one of her somewhere at the back): erm...hello....
I'm not the most articulated person in the world (that was done on purpose before you all start correcting me). Though being from Manchester helps in conversation, we have a football team that a few people seem to have heard of.
Yesterday I decided to start taking my Swahili more seriously, at firsdt I thought it'd be quite easy because they don't mess around with masculine and feminine words-everything (including people) is just it. But then I realised that to compensate for this they have 4 different noun classes, you can tell which class a word belongs to by what letter it starts with-however in Swahili all the endings (-ing,-er,-ed etc) are put on to the beginning of the word (na-, ki,-vi-, etc) so it's really hard to know where the ending ends and the word begins and therefore what class it is. Waaa
Staying on the theme of languages in about 30 minitues I'm off to teach my first English class which ought to be interesting*. Then I have a baptism class, Samuel has decided I need to be baptised properly*, I'll make sure they take photos.
Hope you all got nice surprises in the post, and enjoy pancake day tomorrow-I'm going to show them how to make proper pancakes as opposed to silly thick nasty ones.
People need to tell me what to give up for lent (or take up for that matter).

*read disaster
*read drowned in Lake Nakuru

Sarah Barnsley I need you

Samuel has been putting together a list of things for me to do and places for me to visit whilst I'm here. Nakuru-and bear in mind this is a town that doesn't even have McDonalds-has a deaf school. So I'm going to go there at some point, though we're not sure if they use BSL or not, Samuel wasn't aware that there was more than one type of sign language which then lead me on to wondering how they write Braille in Cyrillic alphabet. If anyone knows.....
So this marks the longest I've ever been away from home, I think so anyway. I'm going to be exhausted this weekend. Tonight is Kesha (all night prayer thingy) so I'll be getting no sleep and then we're setting of early in the morning to go hiking at a prehistoric site not far from here.
In answer to a few questions, Mum I don't know if it costs me money to recieve texts because nobody has sent me any recently, Liz the letters are to stop auytomatic sites adding spam comments advertising stuff, if the sacrement wants her or his identity witheld I must agree to his or her wishes. no Sacrement we did not, or at least I didn't. I don't know what happened to it and havn't bothered to ask. Also I've no idea what happened to the head but I never saw it which is a good thing.
I've gotten into a bit of a routine now and plan to continue in the pattern of blogging monday and friday afternoons. Don't hold me rigidly to that though.
x

p.s On the map Nakuru is a pink dot north west of Nairobi.

chocolate and a surreal bonding experience

yes AJ I can get cadbuy's chocolate here, and drinking chocolate and chocolate eclairs and ice cream and everything else you care to mention. I sucummbed for the first time today and it was well worth the wait. I might have to put in a request for an Easter Egg to be sent though...
We never had a cow in the end, the guy who was meant to be selling it messed us about so instead we had a sheep and a goat. I managed to be suspiciously absent when they did the slaughtering but I helped with the butchering. I still don't quite understand why all the other women were peeling carrots under the trees whilst i stood in the rain with the guys, surrounded by bits f entrails. Oh well, that's wendy for you. We took pictures as proof, oh and i think there may now exist somewhere some pictures of me dancing. I shall make it my task this week to track them down and destroy them, Wendy's legs were not designed to bend that much, I keep trying to explain to them that wendy's don't jump they bob but they weren't having any of it.
I cant post photos because I've not got a fancy camera and there is no scanner here. sorry.
oh and they seem to think that my sleeping bag is the funniest thing in the world...

aw, but I had pans to be bitter and twisted

I'd planned to spend valentines night naming my 24 cats-not really I figured it'd just be any other day but then Samuel and Jackie bought me a rose and took me to dinner so i'm not alowed to say I hate Valentines day anymore.
It's great to read all your comments. Susie I'm afraid that having had much more than I can bare of it I don't even particularly like iced lemon tea-the ice and lemon parts are fine, it's the tea aftertaste that lets it down. Sorry.
Maybe I'll try my hand at being a coffee drinker this week.
On Sunday it's the church here's 3rd anniversary. We're having a huge party with kenyan style barbecue (which means that the cow is being prepared* on Saturday) and they're expecting around 300 people from 10 until 6. Theoretically this'll be my debut as a dancer but since I've missed** all the rehearsals I don't think i'll be inflicting myself upon them to soon.
It's started raining*** so it feels almost like home except that it's still around 30C.
Mambo Sawa Sawa****
x

*for prepared read 'slaughtered'
** for miss read 'avoided'
*** well it's rained twice though the first time shouldn't really count-it was a rubbish attempt
****It's all good!

Ho hum

Just did my first morning working in a nursury scool the kids are all terriffied of me or so it seems.
Not a lot more to say since my last update really. My sunburn and cold are both getting better. My fingers hurt now though from practising guitar.

I'm a Methodist, Get me out of here!

Lovely, quite reserved church here in Nakuru-yeah right. They're all completely mental (Think EP given copious amounts of illicit substances). The morning service yesterday was from 9 until 1, from next week though I'll be teaching Sunday schools, it was good but i don;t think I could sit through it every week. I'm going to be teaching English in the afternoon which could be rather interestin, I'm also apparently joining the churches dance group and learning to play the guitar, not sure which of those scares me the most.
I'm having a great time here-have sunburn and a summer cold. Samuel and Jacqui are brilliant, my room and their house are beautiful, the toilet facilities are interesting.
I'm sat next to two Germans in an internet cafe, they are the first white people I've seen since I left the airport which is quite surreal.
Mum-the flight socks were worn and much appreciated, Matthew-I've got an adopted sister now who is one year younger than you bit not nearly as adorable, Susie-I take my tea iced with lemon and one sugar,Little Sarah-I've not climbed any fences but the fiel keeps getting bigger around me.
Off to do a food shop-they have rainbow coloured breakfast cereal and milk comes in a cardboard pyramid!

backpack, check. underwear, check. Passport...erm Check

Bring it on