kenya round four

Jambo from Kenyan soil!! I'm so happy to say that we and all of our baggage have made it to Kenya and we are safe and sound in Kijabe! the adventure getting here was eventful and crazy to say the least. so here is a snipit of just a little bit of the craziness: our flight kept getting delayed from Amsterdam to Nairobi and it ended up coming in an hour late. when we arrived in Nairobi, the airport had just lost power and so we had to use the fire escape steps and walk to a bus to get to customs. (sidenote: it was raining during that time). once we got all of our luggage, we headed to customs. in Kenya, if you are with a humanitarian group and you have donations, they can tax you if it's not for a government facility. the places where we are working are private organizations, so the customs worker decided that he was going to tax all 12 of our crates of medical supplies and donations. right when he started tallying up how much it was going to cost us, he asked us if we were all students. and since we were, he allowed us to pass through and forgave us of our "wrong doing" (bringing donations for non-government places). when we finally cleared customs, it was 11 pm. we were two hours behind schedule, sleep deprived, and itching to sleep in an actual bed. but low and behold, our unluckiness only worsened. as it turns out, the day we arrived in Nairobi was the day with the "most traffic in the history of Nairobi." so, we spent the next 3 hours sitting outside of the Nairobi airport waiting on our ride (who was stuck in standstill traffic for 4 hours). we looked like a bunch of tired kids whose parents forgot to pick them up from school. thankfully, our ride finally did arrive at 2:30 am and we got to the team house around 4:30 am. it took a grand total of 35 hours to get from Birmingham to Kijabe but it has been so worth it!