Sorry I haven’t writen in so long! The first week of the travel study we did a lot of traveling. We spent the first weekend in Nairobi staying at a guest house. Monday through Thursday we were on safari in Masai Mara game park and in Nakuru. We then went back to Nairobi where we stayed at PACC - Pan Africa Christian College. From there we headed to Vahiga -this is north of Kisumu. We spent two nights in Petra’s family’s home. They are fairly well off and own a lot of property, however, at home people with “nothing” have nicer homes than these. It was a fun stay though and it was really great to be welcomed by a local family. We are now in Kisumu for the day and this is the first chance that I have had access in a long time. I miss home quite a bit. We are just over a third of the way through our trip.
Tomorrow we drive from Kisumu to Nairobi (this is an estimated 4-5 hour drive. The drive here however, took almost 10 hours). The evening we get back to Nairobi we board an overnight train to Mombasa on the coast. We arrive in the morning the next day and are there for five or six nights. I’m really excited about this leg of the trip.
This portion of the trip is and has been a lot of fun. This has definitely been a time to play for us. Although, Our hearts have been broken for the people and certain circumstances we have seen. We have been learning so much about the people and country we are visiting.
The travel study ends on the 16th and so we will head back to Marcia and Dennis Felners for about 10 days. We will be working on their website and at Wycliff. I might get the opportunity to visit a fe more childrens homes. On July 26 Shawn and I are heading up to Don Dol. This is a two on the “northern frontier”. I put that in quotations because it isn’t really even half way across the country land wise but people wise it’s in the middle of nowhere. We are there for a week. We are not yet sure what we will be doing.
After that we are heading back down to Karen (a nice area in Nairobi) and we will be staying at the world vision guesthouse while Shawn teaches the communications department more about photography. We will be here until the 6th of August. After that we will go back to Felkners until we can figure out what else to do.
I have to admit that the thought of being for that long is exhausting. Shawn and I are both doing well. We’ve both been sick but are good now. The medicine that I was on to get rid of the parasite made my skin overly sensitive to the sun so I’m a little fried right now even though I was wearing sunscreen. This is my first burn so I shouldn’t complain and it’s only really bad in the tops of my shoulders.
Sorry mom and dad about the repetitiveness of this post for you !!!
Posted by dani at July 6, 2004 03:39 PMHey Hey Hey,
I think I missed calling to wish Dani a happy bday. well happy birthday Danielle!! Hoipe youre feeling better and hope that all the things are out of the foot (no fun). well i am back in va now and have an appointment with the dr on wednesday to see what is going on with my wrist. I will be sure to let you know what i find out. I will try calling you soon, but i must first get a calling card so I can do that. alright have a good one and love you guys.