Ni saa ngapi? (nee sa n-GA-pee)

It's clockwork, baby. Literally.

A cool detail I would like to point out to the team and to our readers: all entries to the blog, current and in the future, will be posted in "Kenya time." It is always far too difficult to do time zone math in my opinion, and it will hopefully provide everyone States-side with one more link to our daily lives at Mountain Park Academy beginning next week!

I've also decided to add a new feature to the 7-day countdown blog EXTRAVAGANZA: a Swahili word/phrase of the day! In addition to being a book nerd, I'm an etymology and linguistics nerd. I realize that there are probably eight million dialects and the locals' pronunciation will be our ultimate guide, but for the sake of the blog we're going with the wisdom set forth in the Lonely Planet Swahili Phrasebook, pocket size. : )

First, a basic: in Swahili, words are almost always stressed on the second-last syllable. Second, we're learning language today in the spirit of the Beatles (thanks, Dad):

• Hello - Habari (ha-BA-ree); Jambo (JAM-bo)
  

• Goodbye - Tutaonana (too-ta-oh-NA-na)

Good luck! Basically, this is nothing like Spanish. And the phrase titling our post today?

{ What time is it? }