Cheers! Afya!

Ian and me at an authentic English Pub

East Africans will raise their glasses and says "Afya!" It sounds like Ah-Fee-yah and in Kiswahili "afya" means much the same as saying "cheers." Here's to good times and good health! Kiswahili is an official language of Kenya, along with English. Sometimes the language is referred to as Swahili, which is actually what the people are called, not the language. In Kisumu where Ian and I will be living and working, the local Luo tribe is rather large (the Luo are the third largest ethnic group and one of the most cohesive tribes in Kenya). Their language is called Dholuo and we'll probably be learning a bit of that in addition to Kiswahili. Here's to conjugating verbs!!