Happy Obama Day

Yesterday as we were driving into Nairobi, the woman on the radio actually wished us a 'happy Obama day'. Carol said that most people were only working a half day today so that they could be in front of a TV by the time the ceremony started. We went into the University of Nairobi and had a lecture on the Geography of the city. Then we split up into small groups and had a pair of Geography students lead us around the city. They were incredibly nice and let us ask a million and 8 questions as we toured around. On the campus there were huge preperations for the inaguration like a stage with 2 big screen TVs and camera crews interviewing students and tents with tables and chairs draped in American colours. I think every person in the group at somepoint tried to convince prof. M to let us stay in town to watch. No dice though. Instead we came back to the centre, but there is a TV in the lobby which everyone crowded around after dinner to watch the actual speech. They showed the university of Nairobi students dancing and celebrating on the TV and we were all crushed we couldn't be there. It was insanely cool to see the inaguration from this side of the world though, and what it means to people here.