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Road Trip in Nairobi, Kenya
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Music from Occidental Indigene:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/14633
You know you’re in Kenya when…
Heck, they had a holiday when he was elected, but they prefer to kill each other when they have their own elections…
Road trip in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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This year, the Euro Cup is going to be boring
Really, check Lilian’s blog post and you’ll see what I mean…
Night out in Nairobi
Friday Night
Friday night the team decided to treat ourselves with a (very) good dinner, so we went to Norfolk, which is probably the best restaurant in Nairobi. 
In the end and after a little bit more than a couple of bottles of wine, the night called for a disco, so off we went to Casablanca. Verdict: nice disco, but too much of a meat market to me.
Saturday Night
Saturday night was more calm. Isabel, a portuguese girl we met at a dinner in the ambassador’s residence, had her birthday, and we found out that fact in the middle of the dinner with her. After that, another bar/disco, it had “blue” somewhere in the name. Less people than the one on Friday, but more of the same.
Common to both was the music: old/african/the same stuff you heard 5 years ago in any other disco in Europe. If I sound too critic, it’s because I don’t like discos, not even in Europe. Why do I keep going there? I have to have something to blog about! 
You know you’re a whore when…
- you’re paid by the hour
- you do everything the client wants as long as he/she pays
- you live in hotel rooms or apartments paid by the client
- you also work at night and on weekends
- you find it difficult to explain to your friends what you do for a living
Now I know where McGyver grew up…
Forget Engadget, in Africa nothing beats AfriGadget!
Two weeks in Nairobi
Well, it’s been almost two weeks in Nairobi, Kenya, since I got here. Only five more to go… If the time table actually depended on our deployment team.
It’s quite amazing for me to, in the last six months, have already travelled about as much as all my life before, maybe not in kilometres, but for sure in staying length. For the record: more than a month in Poland, a week in Ireland, a week in Mexico and now, again, more than a month in Kenya.
So first, the job.
I’m part of a team of four, deploying the RAID software in Safaricom. And do follow the link, it’s not that kind of RAID.
About that, that’s it.
About the country.
It’s definitely a third world country (should I expect anything else?), and things here move at their own speed. One of the things that most annoy me here is that everyone says “yes” to everything, but it actually doesn’t mean anything: you have to make sure that that “yes” actually is a “yes”, so don’t trust (almost) anyone. I’m thinking this may be common in Africa.
Tourism.
The usual stuff: safaris, souvenirs, very good landscapes… You can follow the photo stream here. I guess the photos look better than actually being there, as the safari was kind of boring (no man eating animals were actually eating).
More later… as in “later weeks”…