Veggie Rebels

We arrived in Kenya after an uneventful flight from London whose onlydistinction was that we shared it with the Nigerian national football team, en route to a game against Rwanda. Fortunately, the Nigerian football team was late getting on the plane, which allowed our ownlate team member Zahir to make the flight after being stuck on aLondon subway. Unfortunately, our Kenyan liasion did not meet us onthe ground and we had to figure out where our apartment was on our own.

We managed without any problems and moved into our two apartments. Each has a nice living room, a kitchen, and a balcony that overlooks the pool. We're in a nice neighborhood close to the Ethopian and Serbian embassies, and not far from the President's house.

Zahir and I went for a run in the area. There's a large park nearbythat was teeming with people. In fact, there are people walking around everywhere at all hours of the day. We came across a crowd of about100 people circled around a man giving a speech on a traffic island. We moved in to get a closer look.

Lined up on the ground, spaced about two or three feet apart, wereseveral varieties of vegetables. Although I didn't understand any ofthe Swahili, it appeared to be a very intense and animated speechabout the merits of vegetables or vegetable products. I'd guess it was a vendor, but no transactions were taking place, sofigured it was some new religious movement based on vegetableparables. Zahir speculated that he was in fact a rebel leader and thatthe vegetables represented different dissident factions. In the eventof a police crackdown, they could simply eat the evidence.