On the way up the hill where I live, there was a truck with folks in the back, running around doing some sorts of (religious, political, entertainment, etc.) announcements over a microphone. I guess I always assumed they plugged the loudspeaker (and I mean- LOUDSPEAKER) system somehow into the truck/car/bike that the people shout from. Well, this truck was carrying around a generator. This particular generator is as big as the one that can boot up my whole house! Maybe these people had a really "powerful" message they had to be sure had enough voltage for the announcements!Inside the truck sits the generator and massive speakers- and the people sit on top of those as they ride about 3 miles/hour around the city making their announcements. Nobody stops them and yet they would be fined and maybe arrested in the USA for how loud they are, plus for how slow they make traffic, and of course is it even legal in the USA to have people ride city roads in the back of a truck nowadays?!.
We had also come up the hill passing over the newest update to my road construction. Here is a photo of how it looks for now... they still have gutters to put in on the side, or else all the work will be literally washed away- that is how heavy the rain falls here. The "white" strips are speed bumps they put in temporarily. But they weren't fooling. The things aren't high- but there are 10 of them in a 2 block strip! Ugh.
We ate snacks (above) at I "heart" New York Kitchen in the mall. Let me clarify- we TRIED to eat. The chocolate cake is HUGE (see photo) and I got a piece of cheesecake with strawberries on top. None of us could finish the goodies and had to take them home for leftovers.
On the next day, we went to one of our local Africa Gospel Churches, where they speak Swahili during the service. I'd been told the regular pastor, Thomas, would be away speaking at another church, but Paul, the assistant pastor, would speak. Paul also ended up going with Thomas and that left Joshua (pictured above- barely as tall as the podium!), Pastor Thomas's oldest, to lead. He did a fabulous job! We later discovered the car Paul was in had a flat and they were really delayed- thus he didn't come in time for church. But I was pretty impressed with the maturity of Joshua and the faithfulness of the other church members as they dealt with an unexpected twist and still worshipped, gave testimony, and even led a brief Bible study. Kudos to Joshua- he is a modern day "Timothy" as the Apostle Paul had his in Bible times!