Greetings Everyone from Nairobi! We are here! After two very long flights broken up by a mad 5 hour dash around London to see as many landmarks as possible! We arrived in Nairobi after 9 pm on Saturday night, and after a long wait gong through the line, we purchased our VISAs, gathered up at 17 huge pieces of luggage and walked out to be greeted by our hosts! Unfortunately, they didn't get my warning about all the luggage and only brought one van - but no worries, these guys are amazing packers!!! All 17 piece, the 8 of us and our driver managed to be transported to our guest house! We got to bed around midnight, and managed a bit of sleep before the noises started!
This morning we spent the morning at Muthare North, where Tumaini is, and went to church with all our friends. We saw a fair number of students - but of course they were all in their Sunday clothes, so no purple uniforms to identify them! We were taken to lunch by Johnstone so we could set up our week and here a bit of what's been going on. Our Belgium partners joined us with part of their team of about 39!!! Tomorrow we will head back out to the school and Kristy and the Stewarts will get a more detailed tour and history of the place, and Hannah and Sam will be set up to attend a class!! Then we will here what it is like in a Kenyan classroom from our youngest team members!! Tuesday has been set aside to hand out all the packages sent by our sponsors. Sam's observation for today - what really struck her - was the contrast between sitting in our guesthouse, which is a fairly nice family home and looking out the back window to a family living in only a shack, cooking their
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brenda
7/17/2011 02:40:06 am
Hi all! So glad to hear you are all in the swing of things already! Great to see that Sam and Hannah get to go to class! Can't wait to here all about it. Take Care everyone!
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6/20/2013 05:56:20 pm
Hey this is a great post . Can I use a portion of it on my site ? I would obviously link back to your page so people could view the complete post if they wanted to. Thanks either way.
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