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I made it!! :-D

Surprisingly, there were NO delays for my flight…and there weren’t eve that many at the airport. So I got to London on time to nap for a while in the airport and make my connecting flight.

I really don’t like flying….it’s probably the most uncomfortable position I could possibly sit in, being on an airplane. The seats were designed for taller people and so it just pushes my head forward in a weird way and ruins the whole experience. I also can’t sleep sitting up, so that’s out of the question. But OH WELL, it’s a necessary evil to get to wonderful places like Kenya!

I was given, for breakfast, a cranberry muffin in a little box that had a word search on the side…in the ingredient list a few words were circled and you were supposed to find them in the word search. I thought that was funny.

At the gate in Heathrow, waiting to get on the plane to Nairobi, I met two other groups who were coming here to do missions trips. One was a pastor taking a team of about 20 high school students to Kenya to do a church planting/orphanage visiting missions trip, and the other was a girl and a doctor who were meeting up with some medical people to go into the bush for a couple weeks and do medical things there, so that was cool to see and get to talk to them. The pastor has been on 20 trips to Kenya in his life. 20. That is insane. And a good goal for me, I think! :-D

Somehow on the LondonàNairobi flight, I ended up in Business class, which was AWESOME because the seats have foot rests and they’re wider, so I was able to curl up in a ball on my side in the seat and sleep. Then I’d wake up an hour later because my bottom leg was completely numb. So I turned over, and just kept doing that every time my leg went numb.

So I FINALLYYYYYYYY got to Nairobi and met up with my “host missionaries”, if you will, and they took me to the AG Missions compound

There are 3 gated, walled-in areas called Compounds 1, 2, and 3. Three is a warehouse, and the other two have houses and apartments. I’m living in an apartment that has a kitchen area with a sink and a mini-fridge, a bathroom with a fully functional toilet and a shower head (you could sit on the toilet and take a shower at the same time if you wanted to) and then a bigger room with 2 bunk beds, a coffee table, dresser, small couch, and 2 arm chairs. It’s pretty nice!

This morning I woke up to the sound of roosters at 5:00….someone needs to redo the whole “cock-a-doodle-dooo” thing, because that is NOT What a rooster sounds like. They sound like dying, mournful coyotes to me. Or Hyenas. So I forced myself back to sleep and had a dream I was running around the African countryside trying to find my way back to the building I’d come from, at night, using a cell phone as a light, trying to avoid various rodents that were sitting around. :-P

Then I woke up again to the sound of the german shepherd guard dogs wrestling with each other literally RIGHT outside my window. So I said hi to them so they would recognize my voice and not eat me when I went outside later. I haven’t been outside yet this morning so that’s yet to be seen if it worked. :-p

The air smells so FRESH her e I LOVE it and I LOVED taking a shower with basically no hair and everything has just been fantastic. :-D

There is a team here from Colorado this week, and they’re leaving tomorrow or the day after, so we’re going to go shopping with them today at the Masai market. I’m pretty sure I’ve been there before, and probably won’t buy anything since I’ll have to hold on to it for so long, but it’ll be nice to get out and explore.

I’m a bit fuzzy on the schedule for the rest of the week but this post is getting long so I’ll write again soon, tonight or tomorrow, to talk about what’s coming up!

Thanks for reading, and for your prayers for my safety and the on-time-ness of my plane, it worked! God is good and Kenya is beautiful, even at night and the tiny bits I can see from my window. J

Check back soon for updates, and hopefully there will be pictures soon! :-D