Our Visit to a Shamba

This is our friend Lynn, who owns a shamba (small farm) outside of Nairobi. Lynn is a writer, translator, former French teacher and examiner of secondary schools in Kenya, who has lived here for a good part of her life. We visited on Friday and Saturday, after spending two days in Nairobi at the International Book Fair and the Gayatri Spivak Colloquium. Our stay was enlightening. Andrew discovered much about the dispersal of languages based upon traditional occupations (farming, fishing, etc.) of various peoples in Kenya. Jeanne was happy to see how the farming operations on the shamba are so sustainable--almost nothing gets wasted. And we both had a good time seeing Lynn's German Shepherds, who have a liking for avocadoes.