Arriving in Kenya!

We have finally arrived in Kenya after a very long trip. Two plain trips, a troublesome 2 hours at Kenyan immigration and a 7 hour bus ride later and we are at our hotel in Kisumu! On the bus ride over here we saw antelopes, zebras and donkeys all over the place, just running wild! It was amazing. We also had to drive through an area that was not quite a dessert but not far off. It had a few shrubs scattered here and there and we kept on seeing these sand storms that looked like small tornadoes or something. Sand swirling up in to the air as high as you could see. Really weird!


Yesterday we spent all day by the swimming pool sunbathing, taking a dip in the pool and eating really good food at the hotel restaurant. This is not our hotel though, we are using the facilities of some other very fancy hotel. Oh no! our hotel has a different kind of luxuries!
When we arrived at the hotel I was bursting for the toilet so I ran in to the room and was happy to see a toilet but not so happy to see that there was just a shower curtain in stead of a door on the bathroom. Thinking that this wasn't too bad I went to the toilet but as I was flushing it all the pipes on it came loose and the bathroom floor flooded with water! I went down in to the lobby and asked one of the staff to come and take a look at it. He came up, plugged the pipes back in their spot and then asked me to come while he demonstrated to me how you flush  a toilet. This was a little embarrassing.


After the toilet flushing lesson I decided to take a shower which I did but when I was done the shower knob had come loose and wouldn't shut off the water. Again I had to run down to fetch the same guy to come and turn off the water. For some reason it wasn't broken any more when he came so he gave me a another lesson but this time it was 'how to turn a knob' lesson. I think the staff here think I'm a lost case.


A part from the bathroom problems the hotel is actually not bad. We have only found two cockroaches in our room so far and they where not very big. Yay!  Now we are heading off to the swimming pool again to relax and prepare our selves mentally for the tomorrow when we set off for our first projects in Kenya.


Signing off from Kenya in 33 degrees C!


-C