AFRICA IT IS

Greetings from Nairobi Kenya

It feels a little like being 'beamed up' in that we went from 'anticipating a relaxing island autumn' to 'arriving in Kenya' is a matter of 2 weeks.
We will move to Eldoret next week sometime and settle int our home away from home.
We are blessed to use the CRWRC office Internet today. We hear that power outages are very common in Eldoret but will do our best to keep up the blog.
We find the Kenyan people to be very friendly and relational. There is an addition being made to our accommodation right next door using lots of man power and heavy labour.

Impressions of Nairobi:

• chaotic traffic with lots of pot holes and abrupt edges to the roads
• lots of interesting sites of people doing everything from driving Mercedes to selling firewood at the side of the road
• friendly Kenyans with beautiful smiles
• had our first taste of negotiating prices - we were not buying anyway
• learning lots from experienced folks at CRWRC
• adorable children
• lots of ex pats in the area we visited today

We have been warmly welcomed and really appreciate the accommodation arranged for us.

Our 2 days in Burlington were wonderful - many great and passionate people sharing their knowledge and experience with us. One fun piece was watching a volunteer hanging up photos of Mali which Nanci B with CCC shared after her Discovery Tour.

Ron just spotted an enormous bird on the roof of the building next door - it looks like a cross between a pelican and a heron and it looks about 1 M tall.

Tomorrow we have made a plan to go to church with Henny and Hans whom we have just met. They are a lovely hospitable couple for Ottawa.

Cheers for now.