water

here water is an issue, unlike back home ti doesn't just come from a tap, where i live cold comes but you have to boil hot, and equally if you and to drink it you have to boil or to wash you have to heat, sometimes the gas doesn't work so we do it on a charcoal outside,
where my friend Lea lives (in one room with here two sisters, a house girl and her sister's daughter) the water only runs in the evening to you have to fill up buckets so that there will be enough in the day for all the washing. so in the small amount of space around the toilet, which bear in mind does not flush without water, there are multiple buckets to step over
at Anas house the water only runs on the weekend only during the week,
and where Mukami lives (she has just one room and shares an outside tap with around 6 families) you must of course go outside as it is a shared tap, around the corner, past the chickens on mud path to the tap, fill your bucket and go to the small hut next to the non flush long drop hole with an old wooden door to wash.
then Mukami told me that where her mum stays the water comes at 11pm so people rest then get up with al their buckets and might wait an hour to fill them.
so all in all it is much more of a polava! but don't let me make you think that i am complaining as actually, spending the night at Mukamis was the funnest night that i had that week, it didn't matter a bit that everything took a bit more effort, i spent the time think how lucky i was to be welcomed into her home and what a privilage it was to be there, it made me see how much we have back home that we take for granted but also think that is essential and really isn't. equally at leas i love going to spend time there with here and her family and it is more fun even that we are all in one room. tonight i have invited Mukami and Lea to where i stay for dinner and to stay the night, i am almost embarrassed at how much space there is compared to where they stay and what they will think, will their behaviors towards me change? and then i wonder WHAT it would be like taking them to where we live in england?? but then i know that is is just me that is worried as the point is that we are spending time together and they know that, they are so nonjudgemtal compared to me that i know they would always think the best of me. the friends i have me here amaze me, i am very lucky.

then on the point of water there are the beautiful lakes, the view from my window to lake Nakuru with the flamingoes, the view from the top of Mt Longonot to lake Navasha. a coutry with so much water that you can see but so little that you can access.