www.theplaceswelive.com - Kibera Kenya

One of the hardest parts having been in a complete different culture is to explain that very different culture to someone back 'home'.
"Hi, I am Stef, I've been to Kenya for a total of 7 weeks in my life, I've walked through some slums, I've hung out with locals and listened to their stories and yeah- now I can tell you what Kenya is like."
No way. I am Stef. I've been to Kenya but I am and always will be the Mzungu peeking into a different land and culture with my own framework or either my own known culture or background.
But, people seem to be interest in my time there.
To me raised the big question then: "How do I explain something of an experience when only I was the one experiencing that?".
It's like me trying to explain you what I dreamed last night, it very most likely won't make sense in the first place but also, your imagination of my dreamed story will be coloured different than how really I dreamed it.
Powerless and frustrating as it is sometimes - I'd like to look at it as something I (and as I believe God) can use for whatever, whenever.
His will be done.

Through a co-worker I got to see this website: http://www.theplaceswelive.com/
PLEASE check it out if you can. It's beautifully made, first of all.
But it will give you quite a good idea of life in some of the biggest cities in this world through good pictures of, for example, life in Kibera.
I can try and describe you a home in Kibera, how tea is made, pots and pans look in a kitchen area, newspaper-decoration will show cockroaches on the walls, smells and sounds of an average slum-home...but I can't. Never fully. This website though will give you quite the realistic look inside of 4 homes in Kibera. 4 stories of people living their daily lives. It's really worth checking it out.