Yesterday I went to the National Museum of Nairobi. I learnt that there are three main periods in Kenya's histoy: the precolonial period, the colonial period of British Rule, and the Indepenant period. Kenya got its indepenance in 1963 becuase of the Mau Mau freedom fighters. I even saw some home made wooden guns that the freedom fighters used. At the museum I also went into the hall of mammals and saw examples of African herbivores (plant eaters) carnivores (meat eaters) and omnivores (plant and meat eaters.) I learnt that the earliest fossils of mankind were found in Kenya. They also had a room filled with show cases of stuffed birds - there is a rich diversity of birds that live in East Africa.
At the snake park at the museum they had a tree with chamilions in it and I got to have one on my head!
There were a lot of school children at the museum and they seeme to have neer seen a "mazungu" (white person) ever. I think that becuase they stared at me a lot and whispered with each other. They would try to get cloe to me and touch my skin.
We will go to a Massai village in 2 days to visit my sponsor child - Solitei.
