Going with the Flow

It's 4 in the morning and I woke up randomly, so I thought I would write a new post for everyone. The past week I have discovered that Kenyans don't make plans until the last minute and also wait until the last minute to change plans. I knew this a long time ago, however this past week was my first true experience.  One day before the school is supposed to close for the term, I learned that instead of the school being closed for the entire month of April, they have decided to have the students come back 2 weeks early to cover more of the syllabus. This of course means that the teachers need to be here to teach the students. However I will not be because I have a 2 week training session with the Peace Corps. When I heard this information, of course Im like... well crap, what am I supposed to do with my classes that I teach. I talk to one of the other teachers and their words "Don't worry about it, someone from your department will cover them..." I dont know if this will actually happen, but Im not going to take their advice and not worry about it. 
Also I had been planning to go with the students who are competing in sports to a different town for 3 days of competition. The same day that I learned the school is opening early... I was told one hour before we were supposed to leave that students are no longer going to the district competitions. You could say that I was a bit peeved... but I acutally wasn't. I have come to expect this from kenyans, haha. I need to learn to live more relaxed and just go with the flow as the Kenyans do.

I leave in less than 3 hours for the coast to visit the other volunteer, Beau, who is also doing the secondary deaf education program with me. I am so excited for this break and traveling! But it was a bit of a hassle to plan out. I am taking a bus in the morning that takes me to Nairobi, then in Nairobi I will have a little less than 2 hours before I need to be at the train station to take a train over night to make it to the coast. To book the train ticket I had to travel to a town that is about and hour from here. On the matatu to the other town I was sitting by the window waiting for the matatu to leave and one of the many men who try to sell the most random things (handkerchiefs, kitchen knifes, combs, popcorn, cds... and the list goes on) came up to my window and instead of doing to normal thing of shoving the random things in my face.... He just looks down and stares at my cheap walmart watch which is actually broken for about 30 seconds striaght, no lie. So Im just looking at him looking at my watch, when he finally looks up at me, he just says "thats a nice watch" and walks off.  He didnt even try to sell me anything. Haha made me laugh alot.

Well I am going to go finish packing and hopefully sleep for a little bit before I take off!