Out of Canada, Into Kenya - Danielle's Journal

France?

We are nearing the end of our trip. We leave Kenya in 5 days now and we are both really excited. Friday night our flight leaves at 10:45 pm and heads to London. Once in London we will be catching another flight to Paris. As some of you may have noticed the dates on this sight don’t line up with the actual dates we’re traveling. We have decided to leave a week early and spend the extra week in France.

This is how it all began…

When Shawn booked our flights for Kenya he sat me down just before the final confirmation. He surprised me by telling me that he booked us a week in Paris on the way home. The purpose of this week was to debrief and unwind a bit from our trip in Kenya. Well here we are at the end of our stay in Kenya and we have nothing planned to do for the last week we are supposed to be here. We have accomplished everything we set out to do. We saw the missionaries we came to see and worked with them. We spent our time with World Vision. And we did the three-week travel study. We prayed about it and talked to some friends of ours here that we respect, as well as the parents, and we really don’t feel like we need to stay here any longer.

So, we are flying standby and are ready for a two-week vacation in France! We are really excited to be able to do this. Shawn had been numerous times and even did a three-week exchange program in Paris when he was thirteen. And another reason I’m excited is because I’ll get to put my French to good use. We are renting a car the first week there and will be touring the countryside and southern France. The second week we will be staying with the people Shawn had stayed with for those three weeks, and we will be playing in Paris.

We leave Paris on August 21 and fly to London and then to Rockford, Illinois. We are there from the 21 to the 23, just as a stop over to visit with family and friends and to meet with the missions committee. We are really looking forward to reporting back to the church with all that we have learned and our pictures. On the evening of the 23 we head back to good, old Langley. And even though we have graduated Trinity Western will be seeing a lot of Shawn during the two weeks of orientation before classes. He will be setting up their computers and helping the new yearbook staff get settled. We will be heading of to camp around the 8th of September. We are here on a six-month contract. We are really excited to be heading back to the Island where we first met.

Posted by dani at August 1, 2004 05:12 PM