- 6 liters of milk (~1.6 gallons)
- A pound of lean ground beef
- Half a wheelbarrow full of compost manure
- 1/4 cup dried blueberries
- Less than a pint of grocery store ice cream
- An imperfect but pretty 16-inch flower pot
- A mediocre sandwich on decent bread
- A pair of beaded flip flops
- Half, yes HALF, of a 99-cent made-in-China bouncy ball (I paid for a whole one...)
- 5 Roma tomatoes, 10 carrots, one red onion, a pound of fresh snap peas, 2 heads of garlic, a bunch of basil, 5 apples, 2 yellow bell peppers and a pineapple
Friday, April 27, 2012
600 Kenyan Shillings
....which is just over $7 most of the time, will get you:
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By car, elephant, and rickshaw
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Exhibit A: I have always, always, been grateful for my job. I can't think of another job where I could have survived 9 months of morning...
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It's not that you can't get stuff in Nairobi, because you really can. But it's usually expensive and not as good as you were hop...
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