Mwiki

Our Village is actually a walled compound on the outskirts of a real village.  It's name is Mwiki and most of us Americans accidentally pronounce it Muweekee until we are corrected.  It's a two-syllable word pronounced just the way it looks.

We drive through Mwiki whenever we go anywhere because Nairobi is on the other side.  We'll save driving in Kenya for another post.  Or two.  Or a therapy session.

I took a walking tour of Mwiki to get a closer look at life in our community.  Most of our workers live in Mwiki, as do our community students.

I'll take you on a photo tour:

These are our waste management engineers.

Next you have the Bullcut Butchery.  It smells like it should and you can pick your part of the cow.

This is charcoal.  Someone takes a dead tree, digs a pit, puts it in, lights it on fire, covers it with dirt, lets it smoulder for a few days and then digs it up.  Voila!  Charcoal!  And it makes very nice grilled chicken.

The Market.

Street vendors:

She has a bucket of itsy-bitsy, teeny-tiny fish.  You are supposed to run boiling water over them, fry them and eat them, eyeballs and all.  I feel like the toddler is trying to say something with that expression, I just don't know what.

Gentlemen walking with their wares.

Have pillow, will travel.  Have too many pillows, will carry one on my head.