Where I'm staying

I'm now settled in to my host family in Nakuru, the town where im spending six months volunteering. im partnered with another girl from England called Becky, can get confusing as my name i have shortened to B for the time being while i am here as Bronwen is too hard for the locals to pronounce so we both have the B part but oh well!
Nancy our host mother is fairly quiet but very well meaning and a good host mother apart from her strong desire to fatten us up 'as we Kenyans like to eat!' she says with every meal- i did try saying that however i am not actually Kenyan and wont look any more like one no matter how big the portions are! But her cooking is good and she looks after us well, even bought a new mozzi net for my bed when my small single bed one didn't fit on the larger bed (larger luxurious bed i hear you say- well yes it is big but very saggy!)
We share a room with THE most fantastic view over lake Nakuru, the brightness of the pink flamingos can be clearly seen from our window, in that sense we really are living in luxury.
We have a maid who sometimes brings her oh-so-cute baby daughter to work with her, we don't mention this to Nancy though as we are not sure if she is aloud to... it did bother us asking her to wash our clothes at first but we figured that Nancy is paying her and that means that she has an income of some sort to feed her child, she can only be my age and lives in the poorer parts of town. Her English is limited but now she will look us in the face and smile sometimes.
Nancy's Husband David works away from Nakuru during the week on a building project I'm not sure where but he is back at weekends and is very lively and chatty.
They have four children, two girls and two boys two of which are at boarding school and two of which are at university so for the moment we have not met them. the younger two will be back at half term so then we shall have a chance to feel more part of the family. one thing that really strikes me here is the way we don't eat family meals at home around a table- that was something that i always took for granted in Cambridge and quite miss now! but that is just a family thing not a Kenyan thing as many of the others have volunteers have meals around a table with their hosts.
bron xxx