When I got to work this morning I asked a Kenyan colleague if I could use her computer to print something. When I sat down, her web browser was on yahoo.com and the main story on the webpage was announcing a celebrity engagement and describing the 2 million dollar engagement ring. This colleague of mine seeing this news probably makes around $200/month and that is considered a good wage, although nothing extravagant. It felt so weird to see that story having just come in from the main road that is dotted by what are essentially shacks by American standards. Man, we've got a crazy world where some people can afford such incredibly luxuries and others struggle to get by. It is hard to comprehend and I'm still wrapping my head around the poverty here.
Yesterday the internet went down for the afternoon and most of the evening, the entire town ran out of petrol, and then the electricity went out. I felt really isolated and it was a tough night. Then I thought the town was on fire and had a brief moment of "What am I going to do?!?! There is no gas in the cars!?!?", but it turns out the sunset just turns the sky bright orange enough to look like flame. It was gorgeous once I knew it wasn't fire ;)
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