Little Differences

I figured out yesterday that part of the reason for the lack of culture shock is that we can afford to live and act like westerners here. and therefore wont ever really understand the day to day life of the average person. Walking home from the town the other night it was very dark. There are gravel paths alongside the road where you can walk, though traffic comes frightening close at high speeds blinding you with the lights. I was walking with a friend of Paul's and she asked me if we could walk outside at night where we live. The idea of street lights and side walks had never even occurred to her because its not a part of the landscape anywhere here except for maybe nairobi.