“I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn darkness into light before them; and make the rough places smooth” Isaiah 42v16
So here we are in Kenya. After leaving Nottingham at 15.02 on Wednesday it took just over 24 hours of travelling on trains, planes and by car before finally arriving in Nairobi.
Coming through arrivals at Nairobi airport was a nervous experience, partly because I had no real idea of what time or day it was due to so much jet lag, but also because of the reality check of where we actually were and not knowing what to expect. We must have stuck out like sore thumbs, carrying our massive rucksacks, looking lost, and not to mention our massive matching broke back hats. Tweedle dum and Tweedle dee. No wonder Wesley, our contact, spotted us straight away.
Nairobi was an interesting place to be. Their roads are more like bumper cars at a fare, and a constant fear of being mugged as we were the only masungu’s around. However Wesley was great, he welcomed us with open arms into his home and even gave us his bed. I have never been so genuinely well looked after, Wesley and his family made us feel so welcome and couldn’t do enough for us.
After catching up on some sleep we adventured into Nairobi city centre on a tour by Wesley’s wife Fancy and her friend Charity. They got us a good deal on our Masai Mara trip, sim cards, easycoach to Eldoret and also treated us to lunch at an Organic restaurant.
We were up early the next morning to continue our travels to Cheptebo, we had a 6 hour coach journey to Eldoret before getting picked up by Sally and Joseph for an hour and a half drive to Cheptebo project! The coach journey to Eldoret was more of a mix between bumper cars and a roller coaster ride! Lots of terrible bumps, overtaking on hills etc. Upon arrival in Eldoret our bags were stolen! We opened the hold under the coach to find that our bags were no where to be seen. Paul’s fears, which he had kept to himself during our travels, had come true! It felt like a life time before we found them, somehow magically on the opposite side to the coach. What actually happened we don’t know, but there was no physical way they could of moved themselves.
Eldoret seemed a nicer place than Nairobi, not quite so busy. We grabbed some lunch in one of Paul’s childhood favourite places Sizzlers before heading off to our main destination, the Cheptebo Project. Hmmmm Fried Chicken :)
Some pictures of the journey…
At the project we are slowing becoming more and more busy. Everyone was very welcoming and excited to see us. We gave a small talk in church Sunday morning. We visited the local school on Monday to find out what we are going to be doing. Paul gave an amazing talk to the Christian Union at the school.
We are experiencing issues with setting up the network, the antenna which was set up by SafariCom is purely for their own benefit to increase the 3G network coverage in the area. We will be investigating into it more tomorrow, trying to find a way of getting around the issue and allowing me to setup the WiFi successfully. Most likely we will be ordering hardware from the UK as the price of equipment here is expensive.
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