IM IN KENYA

 first, i want to thank everyone who is following my blog/leaving comments. it is so heartwarming to see feedback from people who mean a lot to me.

okay, let me breakdown the past few days for you:

9 hr flight, chicago to amsterdam --> 14 hrs in amsterdam --> 9 hr flight, amsterdam to nairobi --> 10 hr drive, nairobi to migori

I WAS SO EXHAUSTED WITH I ARRIVED IN MIGORI.

 arrival at the kenyan airport. after my hours of traveling, this looked like the gates of heaven.

 this is Joshua Omolo, the program coordinator. we had to drive for 10 hours together.. he wasn't asleep. i was low battery and my timing was bad. haaaa





right now, im only adding one picture because our internet connection is disturbingly slow so the upload time is equally as disturbing.

i got into migori last night and met the 7 other girls ill be living with. we are all from the states and its exciting to see everyone come together and share experiences. they are all extremely friendly and we are all about the same age. my room (ill upload pictures later) is a single with a mosquito net over the bed. the living quarters are much nicer than i expected, considering we are in a third world shower. my cold shower was actually quite refreshing.

this morning, we went into town to get water. each girl has their own 5 liter water bottle and needs to refill once finished. the walk there was incredibly hot and carrying that water bottle back from town was gruesome. many of the people cannot speak english and the little english that they do know is "HI!", to which i respond, "hello!" and they respond with "IM FINE!". this dialogue occurs principally with younger children. oh yeah, we don't work on weekends. in fact, next weekend we are going on a safari! i promise that these pictures will slowly be added to blog.. my patience runs quite low with all this. right now, there are about 15 african children waiting outside the house, hoping that we come play. i think i'll go say hi but in sum: day 1 in africa (i guess day 2, if you want to count the ride from the airport to migori) has been fantastic and eye-opening in the sense that i am watching life spawn from minimal means, yet these people look much happier than those in america.

tomorrow is my first day at work, updates soon to come.