May 12

We rented a cab for the day (9-5), first we went to the industrial part of town, which was quite interesting, some slum areas around there, everything here is walled in with barbed wire or glass shards on top of the walls, and with a gate and security guards. and there is the smell of pollution from the cars everywhere, and driving is an art whereby people try to avoid collisions by an informal set of rules.

Anyways, the first stop was DPL packaging, where we went to check on an order of boxes which had been placed. This took a while as we had to deal with the designer and sort out some issues as such, but it was successful as everything was confirmed, and we left the basic design with the company, so now we have to hope everything works out with the design, but we remain optimistic.

Next we went to Kenpoly, our bucket provider to get a quote from them and to inform them of a minor change in our bucket design, a bit of waiting again, but not as bad as at DPL, a good stop. By this time it was already 1230 so we went to the supermarket to pick up a few things for ourselves and lunch as well. The supermarket was pretty ridiculous, It seemed like a loose collection of shops, but was in fact all one store, and it had everything, but all of it in enclaves in its own part of the store, except for the grocery part, which was a little more straight forward. My lunch was a chicken and bacon sandwhich, like a sub, pretty good, I also bought chips. Which I am not eating, they are chili lemon and are actually delicious.

So we finished shopping and proceeded to go to the ministry of public health, and medical services, we arrived unannounced were pointed up to the seventh floor, we met with the secretary of the person we wanted to meet. We were mostly hoping for mapping information, but Subir ended up in a long explanation about various things (his business card says dr.). Then some public relations guy walked in, he seemed more keen on us, but they told us to write down who we were and show up first thing tomorrow. We said we would. We'll see how it goes.

So then we went to the center for health solutions, an non profit organization. We had another brief chat, they are another NGO, working here, the view from the office was quite spectacular, but I'm afraid I didn't get any pictures of it, I've got a few pictures for later, when the internet is better though.

After that we went to another market, Subir wanted to get some money out of the ATM, but he tried four and none worked. So we went home, arriving at 510.

Tomorrow we're going to the UN building and Survey of Kenya.