We went to Julius' family where we spent the whole day and learned lot of about their life and culture. Julius' and his relatives' homes located just opposite of our Research station, so the way to his home was just a hill down and up. Altogether there lived 10 families. First task what Julius showed for us was feeding the goats. He also showed his cows and chickens. After feeding the goats we met one of his sons and he taught us to cut wood. It looked easier than it really was. We tried it but decided to let them him finish it, because we didn't have the whole day for that.
Next we started to prepare our lunch which was traditional Kenyan food bean-yam stew. It took few hours to poach , so we had time to do other tasks. Meanwhile the food was poaching we washed clothes by our hands and Julius explained about his farming business. He also let us to plant some new plants to his field. When the food was ready we headed back to his house and had a lunch. And the lunch was quite strange experience, because we only had a huge amount of bean-yam stew and it was more dry than the food, what we usually eat in Finland.
But after we had finished our food we went to see Julius' bee nests and we also met one of his brothers, who was a priest. The last hour was the most memorable, because during that hour we spent time with children and they wanted to braid girls' hair. After that hour we were just smiling and in a good mood. Unfortunately at five a clock we had to finish our day at Julius' home and we went back to Station.
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