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Maasai Market

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Today, I visited Maasai Market in Nairobi and was pretty overwhelmed.  The bright colors everywhere are what immediately catch your attention and the range of product is immense.  There is handmade jewelry, baskets, bags, clothes, wooden kitchen utensils and much more.  However, the place is covered in “brokers” who take you around and tell you ridiculous prices for everything.  One tried selling me an item for 15000 KSH and I easily talked him down to 1500 KSH.  The brokers at the market have some pretty unique marketing tactics too, one told me that a particular piece I was looking at was so special it could be put in a museum when I was finished with it.  Luckily, I am a hard bargainer and got some great deals (I think?).  I left feeling pretty exhausted from all the bargaining and intense badgering.  Be warned: Maasai Market is not the place to go for leisure shopping.

Hope I can fit all the goods in my suitcase on the way home!

xoxo

-s

Changes

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As H mentioned, I have ventured to Nairobi, Kenya.  I arrived just a few hours ago and the current time is 1:35am.  The thirty hours of traveling and ten hour time change has left me severely jet-lagged and unable to sleep.

This year has brought a lot of change for me.  I think that if you would have asked me this time last year what I was going to do after graduation, I never would have said moving to Kenya for the Fall.  This opportunity sprung on me, so I took it.  Unaware that when the time came to actually go, I would be shaking in my boots.  I can tell you that four hours into my three month stay I have felt an array of things; mostly scared and lonely, but also very excited.

I will keep everyone updated, especially when I see this place in the daylight.

xoxo

-s