The chicken project continues to be the focus of my attention and as of this weekend 300 chicks are thriving in our coop. This week they will get their first vaccination and I am scheduled to attend a half day class at Kenchic to learn more about raising chickens.
We took a trip to Nairobi to visit our local GSK office. Roadside fruit and vegetable vendors aggressively approach any stopped vehicle to sell their crops. While driving into Nairobi I took this picture of how Kenyans navigate a two lane highway. Sadly, both lanes of traffic faced against us so we had to come to a complete stop and wait for the situation to resolve. At least we were able to buy a few fresh vegetables.
Our GSK Nairobi colleagues were very gracious hosts and they gave us a tour of their production facilities. We put on special garments to keep the factory clean. I am working on the Aquafresh Toothpaste production line. The GSK factory in Nairobi was producing mostly consumer products like energy drinks and nutritional supplements while I was there.
I stayed in a typical hotel in Nairobi and you can see the mosquito net spread over the bed. You need to properly spread it out and tuck it under the mattress so bugs don't crawl in. I took a picture of the pillows because they were stiff as boards and not very comfortable.
Kenya is famous for coffee and tea and there are many tea plantations still in operation from the English colonial times. The tea plants grow at the higher elevations and cooler temperatures found in the mountain plateaus above Nairobi. There aren't any tea plantation at the low elevations where we live on the shores of Lake Victoria. The white cottages house the many worker needed to work on the tea farms. I think much of the work is done by hand because I saw no farm machinery of any type.
While taking pictures of the tea plants a small group of children formed so I to took a snapshot of them. The girl on the left is holding a drum.
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