Kenyan Soil

After 3 airplanes, 17 hours of travel and 2 hours time difference to Ireland we finally landed in Mombasa, Kenya. The sun was laughing down and the sandals got finally a purpose to be used. Joshua, a volunteer working in the Kenyan hub, Farid, the technical director for Camara Africa and Neil, our team coordinator, picked the six of us up from the airport. Neil and Dee are our team coordinators and have been in Kenya already for a week to organise the courses, facilities, acommodations and everything else. In total we are 10 and Alanna and Dani have been in already one month in Rwanda and now join the Kenyan team for another month.

From the airport we went straight to the apartment to get a cold shower (no other water temperature was available at that point) and some food. The apartment is very nice and has already some mosquito protection so I am still hesitating to buy an extra one but I might just have to do this to be more protected. The day we arrived we just relaxed and went to the near by supermarket to got water and some food. Walking seems to be the main transportation system for a lot of Kenyans as the side of the streets are always full with people walking. Other ways of getting around are so called Matatus which are basically a 9 seater van which turns into a 12+ seater van, and the so called tuktuks, which are a bigger moped with a cabin in the back.

The supermarkets have almost the same products as we have only that products we know cost 3x more than local products (again just like it is in Ireland) except fruit is a lot cheaper here and much more delicious. Back in the apartment we had an earlier night as we needed to be ready by 7am next morning to go to the Kenyan hub.

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Wencke