And thus begins my summer in Kenya.

damage report 28 May 04 - 29 May 04
-forgotten headphones
-delayed flight
-altercation w/ jetblue employee
-flight near miss
-anixety attack
-lost earring
-21 grams (if you've seen it, you know what i mean)
-two narrowly-averted sob sessions
-AVML (Asian vegetarain meal)
-->vomiting

this is the first time i've had a pen in my hands all day, and its damned about time. right now i'm sitting in my apartmeny with an upset stomachj/empty stomach, my accomdations are simpole but quite spactios, and quite reasonable given the tarrif. what's more, for one night its mine alone (tomorrow i get roomates)

aside from the driving on the left side thing, Nairobi looks suspiciously like an American territory. billboards line the highways in dense thickets, fancy cell phone ads can be seen everywhere, and everybody speaks crisp English. I've even seen a lot of white people and Asians, which is to say, non Africans.

what's more, what did i hear on the radio coming out of the airport? none other than alicia keys' new song and beyonce. goddamn globalization is making travel obsolete.