Today, I woke up and went to my computer to blog my past 4 days with Maruge. My computer wasn't working correctly, because it wouldn't let me center my text like all of my other posts.
Maruge woke up and told me that he would take me on a tour of the town. We got dressed and brushed our teeth, then we set out. Maruge took me back to the marketplace, where we had lunch. We each got a big bowl of fruit, and we both sat there eating it and talking. I talked to Maruge about surfing, and how it feels to slide across a wave. He was very interested. I wanted to show him how fun it is to surf, but we were in the middle of kenya, so I obviously couldn't take him out surfing in the ocean. I saw a big wide plank of wood, and I had an idea.
Next to it, there was a short log, that could probably roll. I put the plank of wood on the log, and made my own homemade into board. I showed Maruge how to ride it by swinging his legs back and forth.
Maruge woke up and told me that he would take me on a tour of the town. We got dressed and brushed our teeth, then we set out. Maruge took me back to the marketplace, where we had lunch. We each got a big bowl of fruit, and we both sat there eating it and talking. I talked to Maruge about surfing, and how it feels to slide across a wave. He was very interested. I wanted to show him how fun it is to surf, but we were in the middle of kenya, so I obviously couldn't take him out surfing in the ocean. I saw a big wide plank of wood, and I had an idea.
Next to it, there was a short log, that could probably roll. I put the plank of wood on the log, and made my own homemade into board. I showed Maruge how to ride it by swinging his legs back and forth.
Maruge hopped on the board and almost fell off, but I caught him. I held him while he slowly warmed up on the into board. After a little while, he decided to try on his own again. He fell off a few times, but after a while, he got the hang of it. We took turns shredding the imaginary waves on our new toy.
Next we went to go watch some people playing music in the market. We passed by some men playing a cool song, using an upside down trashcan and a weird guitar-like instrument.
Maruge and I then heard a very interesting noise. We heard a band, with multiple guitar solos and baselines. We rounded the corner excitedly, but what we saw didn't match what we heard.
A woman sat on the side of the road, with an old, cracked guitar in her lap. It was one of those guitars made for kids, with a short neck and little plastic strings. But she played it in the weirdest way I had ever seen a guitar played, sliding her callused old hands up and down the guitar's neck. I listened, and saw that she was playing the low strings for that deep base sound, and that she was playing the high strings in a separate pattern, creating the high pitched solo sound that I had heard earlier. It was so amazing.
Maruge and I then went back to the food market to eat some dinner. Maruge and I shared a bowl filled with a lot of good foods, like beef, corn, and some salad. We just ate it with our hands, as was the custom in Kenya. It was really good. Then we went back to Maruge's and went to bed.
1 comment:
Yes I did get the idea from your blog about the soup, but I already had the lady playing the guitar. So you copied me.
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