New Friend

I have a kitten. Its really cute. Its really tiny. Apparently its mother had too many kittens so she started rejecting some of them. So it has come to be mine.

This is a lot more work than I anticipated, since the kitten is actually too young to be away from its mother. It has to be bottle fed and it cries a lot. A lot! But I'm hoping that in a few weeks things will settle down.

I'm pleasantly surprised to see that people do keep cats as pets here. They are looked at more favorably than in Nairobi. I don't think it'll be too hard to find a good home for the little guy when I leave.

And it has already served as a connecting point with some of the neighbors. With all of our cultural and language barriers, easy conversation starters are a bonus.

And who doesn't love someone that talks about their cat constantly? I think that's got to be universal.

She still has baby blue eyes.

She looks so much like the cat I had growing up.