waka waka ayyy ayyy

so less than 1 hour until the world cup final! I'm seriously rooting for Holland and their orange tulip & windmill-powered nation. I have a vague dislike for Spain, perhaps only because my friend described David Villa as looking like a skeeze ball. We'll see how the match turns out!

Walking around town there are a number of people who hum either the Shakira Waka Waka theme or the K'Naan Wavin' Flag theme, and the club I went to last night played each of those songs at least twice while I was there. Everyone at the club who had a vuvuzela appropriately took it out and gave it a blow. Whenever a game is on, the Old Town section of Mombasa sounds like it has been or is about to be taken by a large swarm of bees. bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

We went to an outdoor screening of the US-Ghana match and were four of the total 7 US supporters in a crowd of over 100 people. It wasn't uncomfortable to be there, on the contrary, it was exciting to see the excitement for any good shot, save, corner kick, and goal that the Ghana team had.

I'm off to go watch the match with a number of the Yale students. I'll be in Nairobi & Mt. Kenya area for the next week and a half, so will try to post right after I get back. In a nutshell, everything here in Mombasa is going well. My phone was stolen from our house while I went up to the roof to hang out my laundry, but other than that no big issues.

Hope all is well!