The front of the cottage we are staying in. The 1'st window to to the left of the door is the office. The window on the right is the kitchen.

Wed., 30 Mar.
Some of you may be wondering what out accommodations are like. The building is a combination of brick and adobe, all plastered with morter and painted white. We have a very serviceable kitchen with a gas stove and refrgerator but only cold water. There is a 2 pc. washroom at that end. The entrance is into the living room and the office is off the LR. A door, which we lock when we have leave without locking the building, is off the LR and leads to a hall off which are 2 bedrooms and a 3 pc. bathroom. The shower has a pressure operated electric heater. (This one really works – we have hot showers!) The bedrooms have painted cement floors and all the other rooms have ceramic tile. There are 2- 48" wide beds in each bedroom with mosquito nets. The LR has 2 arm chairs with small side tables, a couch with a coffee table, a 2' x’4' table with 2 lawn chairs. Althgether it is quite comefortable.

Our biggest problem is getting a variety of vegetables. This is the dry season and those available ard mainly tomatoes, cabbage, carrots and sometimes beets or beans. Now that the rainy season has started, things could improve in about 6 weeks, shortly after we leave 10 May. Meats are restricted to ground beef, chicken, and sausages. That’s OK because I probably wouldn’t buy pork here and the beef we have had in restaurants is generally tough. We have been warned not to buy from the butcher shops due to poor handling.

We were in town Tues. at lunchtime so ate in a restaurant. We had matoke and 1/4 chicken. The chicken was rather tough but the Matoke was good. It is something like a stew made with potatoes, some carrots and bananas and ???. Another very common meal item is ‘ugali’ which is ground corn boiled. It is about the consistency of dryer mashed potatoes. Neither Eva or I care for it.

Thurs., 30 Mar.
We were in town this morning to get the money from the bank to pay the salaries and monthly bills. People here don’t like cheques because the banks always hold the money until the cheque clears, often up to 7 days. On the way in we saw a man transporting about 10 bentwood arm chairs strapped to the back of his bicycle.

We enquired about having a 4 unit locker made for the 4 guards to keep the uniforms they are going to be issued. Somewhat high at 14,900 ksh. When we got back, Nixon, a member of the advisory board, was here and when he heard the price, he just laughted.