Well the day started fairly normal. Woke at 7:00 to shower and wash some cloths.
Then had something to eat and headed to town.
I need to visit the customer care place that my cell phone is through
here. They wanted me to confirm my
ID. So when we got to town we headed
there first in hopes that we could get that over with first. The line was huge so we thought we would do
our shopping and then come back.
Once we were done with that we heading back and the line was
still big. It was about 10:40. I needed to confirm the ID so I needed to
wait. Let me explain a little about how
the customer care center works. There is
one person to help. There are chairs set
up and you sit in line waiting. Often
people will walk in and not wait in line and go right to the representative.
And they will be helped. This then
delays that ones that have been waiting.
It is very frustrating to watch.
They are also only open three days a week. Which seems crazy when they are always busy.
So my waiting started. I also was
scheduled to be in the library from 1-2.
Now you may think that would give me lots of time. But once an hour had gone by and I had only
moved two seats I knew I was not going to make it home in time. So Jillian left and headed home and went to
inform the kids that I would not make it.
After the second hour I knew things were not good when the Kenyans I was
sitting with were also not happy with the wait and the fact that people just
kept coming in and not waiting in line like the rest of us. You see in Kenya generally there is not rush
for anything. Waiting is just what you
do and it is normal. So I knew that once the Kenyan’s were getting frustrated
that it was okay for me to feel the say way.
It seemed that after some complaining was done some order was
restored. People were told that they had
to wait in line like the rest of us. The
rains have come here in Kenya which is great.
But as I was waiting the clouds were coming and all I could think of is
I really want to get this done and get back home before the rains come again. Well after a three hour wait it was my turn
and as I guested it took them 30 seconds to do what they had to. The rain was little so I quickly found my
bike guy and made my way home.
It was only lightly raining so I got home is safe time. Once
home I had quick bit to eat and headed to the library. The kids were ready to be in so I did a quick
clean. Because it was Canada day Jillian
and I had planned to go out for supper to celebrate. We hoped to leave by 5 but
Jillian was in a meeting that went until 5:30.
Well the rains had come hard. We
headed home to prepare to leave for supper.
I did not have good foot wear on and there was a huge puddle in front of
the gate leading out of the school. So I
either go through it with my better shoes on or just take them off and go
barefoot. Let us remember that the roads
that we live on are not paved and have rocks.
And it was raining. I made it
home safe but will not make it a practice.
Then we changed from our wet close to dry was and headed into town for
supper. The other things to understand
in Kenya is to know that even if it says they have something on the menu it
does not mean that they do. So when
picking what you want you have a few things on your mind as it is quite possible
that they will not have what you first wanted.
My first choice was a hamburger.
No go so then decided on pizza can chips (French fries). It was all very good. We ended the day by coming home and finding
no internet (not uncommon). So went to bed after a long day in Kenya.
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