The Quiet Continues

My roommate is gone for the weekend, so my room has been even quieter than usual the last couple of days. I escaped the silence for a little while last night by going to Poker Night with my friends from Vintage. I lost very quickly, but I played Jenga and another card game with the other losers until we got kicked out of the McKay lounge at 9 o'clock. (Random fact: "Jenga" means "build" in Swahili!)
Today I slept in late, then did some much needed grocery shopping and dish washing. Plans for tonight: NONE! It's snowing, and I don't feel like going anywhere. I'll probably work on homework for a few hours and then watch a movie or read or something.
News from Kenya today- Things in Kipkaren remain calm and normal. Adele sent me several links to news reports that I'll stick at the end of this in case any of you are interested. She also mentioned that she has not been taking pictures (again for security reasons), but Micah Albert, a BBC photojournalist, was in the country recently and took some really powerful shots of the effects of all the violence and unrest.
There was one thing in particular in Adele's email today that really shocked me. I knew that international news sources weren't getting the whole story, but she shared a bit of information that was rather staggering:
"News sources still only talk about around 800 people having been killed. We know daily of people in the area who have died. But for the most part, they're not even listed in any reports. Many people are taken directly to their family homes for burial, passing through no mortuary. No-one keeps score of those deaths. Most people agree that the number is at least 100% higher than that which is being reported."
Please continue to pray for peace, rather than just calm. Calm is nice for now, but peace would be so much better.
As I said, here are the links to the news articles:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/world/africa/02kenya.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7224214.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7218355.stm
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL3073745220080202
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article3290356.ece
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080201.wcoessay0202/BNStory/International