Finally Here!

Hi everyone!
I got to Nairobi on the 2nd at about 6am. Flying in the horizon was streak with bright orange, pink, yellow, and blue.. it was beautiful. We then stayed in a Guest House until Saturday and started classes. Swahili class is really fun, but I am still not great at speaking. My other class is a social history of East Africa and it is interesting.
I am now staying with a family in Riruta Satellite, a village on the outskirts of the city. I am about a ten minute walk from the school house. My family is awesome! My mom, Priscilla is very nice and a grandmother to about 9. In the house there is: two of Priscilla's daughters Ruth and Evelyn, three of her grandsons Ian age 20, Steph age 4, and Koki age 6, and a house worker, Jane. The two little boys are adorable.
I have my own room in the house and the house has electricity (when not blacked out) and running water (about once a week when the city turns it on). So on Saturday when I got there they fed me too much food and then I helped stock up on water for the week. The food is really good and they want to feed me all the time. I luckily pack my own lunches so I don't have to eat that much for lunch or breakfast. The yard is big and has a pond, a garden, chicken coup, and a rabbit house.
Kenyans are super friendly and offer great hospitality. Our Swahili teachers are great and school is enjoyable because we break for tea twice a day (a result of British colonization). People here really support Obama. When I was in a little shack of a bar last weekend I had a very interesting conversation with a woman who is a nurse here. She told me that Obama's father stayed right in the area we were that night and that he went to the same primary school she went to. We had a lovely chat and everyone in the bar was impressed that us wazungu (white people) knew any Swahili. It is definitely shocking just how much we all stand out when walking to school, but most people are very welcoming and friendly.
I am having a great time and will try and write again soon. The internet in Riruta is very slow and goes out frequently, but today I came closer into the city center because we didn't have class this afternoon. I probably wont upload pictures for a while because it isn't really smart or appropriate to take many pictures where we are right now. I want to behave as a student rather than a tourist so I wont have many pictures for a while, but I will definitely have some pictures of my homestay family eventually.