JAMBO!
Hello from Kakamega! This has been a crazy first week, week, right? That’s one thing about the World Race, you lose alllll concept of time! I mean I know it is Saturday because we managed to snag a free day to get internet!
We had a day of rest when we first arrived after leaving Nairobi, but day of rest in Africa means walking to the 14 passenger bus stop where you cram 20 something people on the bus/van before getting dropped off in a remote outskirt of Kakamega, where then you proceed to pile out only to realize you are about to ride a piki piki in a skirt (thats a motorcycle/dirt bike thing) with the driver, yourself, and your teammate into Kakamega Forest. We arrived at the Forest and saw lots of butterflies and babboons (Pictures to come soon). However, needless to say, it was a looooooong day especially coming off of a most interestingly long travel day from Nairobi to Kakamega! Which pretty soon will seem like a short travel day especially after the 34ish hour travel days to arrive in Kenya! However, our travel day to Kakamega looked as follows:
Meet team for breakfast at Hostel: 6:15AM
Load shuttle for Bus Station: 7:15AM-ish
Arrive at Bus Station: 8AM-ish
Leave Bus Station: 9:30AM-ish
– a few stops and drop off points along the way
Arrive at Bus Station in Kakamega: 6:15PM-ish
Total Time in Bus = 8 hours, 45 minutes!
Prior to heading to Kakamega we stayed at an awesome Backpackers Hostel in Nairobi:
(The fire that was roaring behind the hostel when we arrived, just a car, you know)
More pictures to come, sometime, internet is scarce and slow this month. We are a traveling team going to all sorts of villages throughout Kakamega, so please bear with me this month as I may only get to post two or three times more before Uganda. Down time is also scarce to get organized prior to arriving at the internet location.
Oh and our first two days of ministry were spent in Mukuluso where we traveled via the back of a truck and walked/slid through the mud to arrive at this precious African church with precious African children who sang and danced for us and with us (Video to come sometime).
I miss everyone and I miss the predictability of American life, but this is my new life and this is what the Lord has called me to do in this season! Please help me finish this 11 month season of missionary work by donating to my support account! Please look to the left under my picture to see where to donate! Asante! (Thank You in Swahili)
PS: Mzungu is what all the African Children call the white ghosts that they have only ever heard about aka us! We also feel like we are on parade because everywhere we go we shout greetings in Swahili and wave, especially on the back of a truck!
Oh and at launch my team put together a Video with the prompt, “The Best Stories Are …”
