Well after about 25 hours straight of travelling (15 spent flying, 10 spent driving to the airport, waiting, then driving here), three on-flight movies that we could barely see (I'll have to watch that Harry Potter one again at home), about 16 on-flight meals (weird...) we've arrived safely at Mayfield Guest House in Nairobi. Don't worry mom, there are two or three guarded gates that the bad guys would have to get through to make it to us.
That's the good news. The bad news is that our luggage is still travelling abroad. That's right, we're here without so much as a bottle of shampoo - good thing I packed that extra shirt and pair of socks in my carry-on!.. We also shafted the driver that was at the airport to pick us up and took our own cab. So, I guess we're 0-2. The blessing in disguise is that we had SO much luggage that it was nice to not have to transport it here after the flight!! Hopefully KLM will deliver it to us.
I guess the message right off the get-go is to let go of the control we think we have while over here and have faith that things will work out. I, for one, am really excited now that we're here and we were able to take care of (mostly) what we needed to finish. I found myself quite nervous, however, on the plane - that uncomfortable feeling of not really knowing what's coming. Please pray for our luggage, first of all, and that our 2 days of orientation calm our nerves for the unknown.
Time to go and get some sleep. With that time change it made me think how hard it would be to be a flight attendant or a pilot, doing that day in and day out (or even those business guys that insist on wearing a full three-piece suit for an 8-hour flight, but that's a bit of an aside).
Anyways, sorry if this post is a bit scattered, I'm working on only a few hours of sleep and I tried to send it away quickly just in case the class tries to check it before the end of the day. I'll write more sometime in the next couple of days, but I don't know if anything exciting is going to happen in that time since we'll be just hanging out here.
All the best,
Kevin
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That really is bad that you don't have shampoo but still don't come back smelling really bad
ReplyDeleteRAchel
you must have been so bored!!!
ReplyDeleteif I were on a flightthat long I would watch all three Lord of the Rings in a row...
... and probably still have time to do the same with Pirates of the Caribbean!!
So what is Kenya like?
Is it really really really hot?
What do the buildings look like?
Do you really think any 'bad guys'would try to 'get' you?
Hah! I'm assuming this is Victoria :-) Good questions, all of them. So far we've only gotten a view of Nairobi. It was BEAUTIFUL today, about 22 or 23 degrees, but we're at about 5000 feet above sea level here so it doesn't get really hot (even though it's so close to the equator). The city itself is pretty modern, like other big cities (3 years ago the census said 5 million) but we went to a market area today and that was pretty neat to sea - so many people crammed into such a small space! We didn't do any shopping because we didn't really have time... As for the bad guys, I don't know. I'd like to think I'd be too menacing for anyone to pick on me, but I'm probably only kidding myself... Oh there's the dinner bell - gotta run!
ReplyDeleteI accidentally wrote my comment on the first post!
ReplyDeleteOOSIE! Please check it and have fun eating Dinner!
~Joe~
You said it was "neat to sea!"
ReplyDelete*Giggles*
~Joe~
Oh no, I'm losing all grammar credibility with my class! That's ok, Joe, because you said this on your other post: "Hi, It's Joe, your favourite student! Not his mother. Hope your having fun". :-) On another note, swahili grammar would be much easier to learn - not so many exceptions to rules... Anyways...
ReplyDeleteHey Mr.W!
ReplyDeleteHow is Kenya? I hope you are having fun!
Do you ever want to come back to Canada? :p haha!
ReplyDeleteMy dad went a week without luggage in Europe! Maybe that will happen to you! HOPEFULLY NOT!
ReplyDeleteHey Wolting's
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you made it there safely.
Do you need me to Fed-Ex you some stuff till you get your luggage back?
I am looking forward to hearing more about what you will be doing there.
Val says Hi.
Talk to you soon guys.
Peace
Hey Mr. Wolting!
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't have a boring time while staying there for a while! Have an exciting time! Go party or something! I dunno!
:)from Cass
Right ow i'm bored! I won't be in a while though! I'm gonna see a Rockets game in about an hour! So, What's Kenya like?
ReplyDeleteYu should have packed your whole class in your luggage and brought us with you!
lol jkjk
:)
yep this is me!!!
ReplyDeletehmph. Lucky. right now it is 5 degrees outside.
But I haven't been outside all day, so I don't really mind.
yeah, don't kid yourself. It's not nice. :D
DOH! I missed that=p
ReplyDelete~Joe~
Well our luggage did arrive (7 out of 8 pieces for the 4 of us, anyways!) Today will be pretty exciting - church in the morning at Nairobi chapel and then we are going to go exploring. We don't really have anything on the agenda for orientation, so it's pretty much our time! I'll hopefully take some pictures and make another post tonight that will have more details about Nairobi before we leave EARLY tomorrow morning. Thanks for the comments, you guys are hilarious!
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