View from Baba Stanley's apartment complex ("Baba Stanley" means Stanley's dad).
Apparently, this guy is boiling a goat head in that pot. I'm told it makes a good soup.
Reception antennas.
Up on the roof/3rd floor (the complex is not finished yet).
I would not be at all upset if we ate the rooster for breakfast. I'd even slaughter it myself. I was sleeping like a rock, 'til 7am when he tought to begin his morning chior practice! Oooh I was mad!
He was told to fix the iron. Yay for Electrical Engineers. Unfortunately, he didn't have his preferred screwdriver. As he tried to describe the importance of the screwdriver to me, he put it in terms I could understand, and stated: the screwdriver is the engineer's stethescope.
Posin' with the neighborhood. I think they're all looking at me tho... :{
Family shot! Baba Stanley, half-sis, Stanley with half-bro (Cosmos), step-mom.
One of the pimped-out Eastlands matatus. Apparently there's a new one in Kayole that's so tricked-out that the conductor doesn't even have to hussle to get passengers. They just pull up and watu pile on. It has a plasma/LCD screen on the ceiling and even one of the back of each seat. The purpose of these screens is for music videos....Hmmm, I wonder where these matatus are parked when not is use? I know I'd steal one if I had the chance. Then again, they're likely running 24/7.
I think the polici pretty much hate the matatus...they give the police too much trouble and disregard most traffic laws. For instance, they are not supposed to drop or collect passengers at certain places because it congests traffic. This evening, on the way back to Bomas, our matatu, leaving the main stage in town near Kenbanco House, decided he would pick passengers in a "no load zone", which also happened to be right in front of a police officer. So, the police hits the side of the matatu with his baton/stick thing. The conductor makes some astonished face accompanied by an exclamation of "Ay!" or "Hey!" in response, while he lovingly inspected the 'wounded' door. As a result of his grumbling and his continued efforts to load passengers, the vehicle received another emphatic, whap! Again, resulting in more (probably rude) remarks from the conductor. Luckily, the driver entered traffic before this went any further.
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