Bugs and Canadians

Today we toured the lab parts of the research centre we're staying at and had a lecture on some of the projects they are doing here. It was crazy interesting. First we had a lecture on malaria and how they've learned that your foot odor is one of the main attractants for mosquitoes, then we had a lecture on what they are doing about promoting honey bees and silk worms as an economic means for families and a way to discourage deforestation. I had no idea bugs were so lucrative.
In the afternoon we went to the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi and had some talks about CIDA and about Canada's role in the politics of East Africa. Then we went to 'the village market' which contrary to what the name might lead you to believe was actually a massive and really elaborate shopping mall complete with obscene name brand stores and a semi-indoor waterfall. It is aparently where Nairobi's upperclass do their shopping and taking us there was to show us how massive the gap between rich and poor actually is in this country.
What's insanely interesting about this city though, which I noticed I have failed to mention, is that everyone here is incredibly well dressed. Almost all men, whether students, waiters or job-seekers wear a dress shirt and tie, and the women are all dressed in really nice skirts or dresses. I travel halfway around the world from montreal and still feel like a bum when I leave the house.