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Published: August 9th 2007
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Langata - Day Bed
Yes... this is where I rested up after my long flight over... what a bit of bliss! Yes... this is where I rested up after my long flight over... what a bit of bliss!I have arrived finally in Africa. I have been here in Kenya for two weeks now and so much has happened... but unlike the Western world where the internet is at your fingertips and super speedy as well, it has been quite difficult to get to you all! Even now I have been trying to get going for over two hours after it took me two hours to get to the inernet cafe in the first place! So unfortunately I am not in the poetic mood that I wanted to be when I wrote this first entry from Africa. I also am working on another project (since I am now at the childrens home and it is actually 9.5.07) but I will try to revisit my first week here and the emotion and beauty and fun that I experienced as best as possible. Hopefully the distance of the internet will cover my current irritation and frustration!! and hunger actually... damn!
Langata
First I have to tell everyone, that I got on the plane in London and looked around to find that
I was sitting i front of, oh I don't know, about 10 Jamaican women going on family vacation!! Just think of that. It was a pretty odd crowd on that plan, next to me were an older Kenyan couple now living in the states decked out in their cowboy gear, hats boots and jeans, on their way to visit family back in Kenya... and well, thats all I remember now. I absorbed myself in 3 different movies along the way as I had an isle seat and could not look out the windows, all of which were shut anyways. I would get up and go look out the window at the back once in a while but couldnt see much more than clouds... until, about 3 hours away i looked down and saw desert... a lot of fucking desert, it was nuts!!
When I walked off the plane I could not wait to get to my first hosts house, Natasha, a fellow Jamaican and part of that big family of everyone who knows everyone!! After waiting for about and hour and a half for my bag, the last bag, to finally get off the plane.... a wonder as there were
no other flights at our terminal, I finally walked out the doors to meet me driver Smiley and get to Natashas place in Langata right next to Karen. To speed things up... her place is beautiful, check out the photos, and I was immediately at home there. Her lovely man Tor took me the next day to see the rare giraffe breed (forget the name at the moment) and to feed and hug them and get lots of sloppy kisses. Yay! sooo cool.... little did I know that at my next stop I would have giraffe and a whole array of other wild african animals in my backyard to gaze at during breakfast and sunset...
Lake Naivasha
Driving along the ridge, on the road to Naivasha, wildly snapping photos of the Great Rift Valley, I was clueless to the beauty that awaited me. I was about to find out exactly why my mother has been so worried about me traveling here.
How do I begin to tell you all about Naivasha! About my lovely hosts John, Elli and Colm D'Ollier and the fantastically wild time they showed me during my stay?! Perhaps I will keep
the writing to a minimum and let the photos do all the tellin... (if they ever get up.) My first eveing there I played golf (well just a couple hits) with John and Colm on the most beautiful course ever... fever trees everywhere! and then Colm drove me around their 'backyard,' which they share with others who live around the southern side of the lake, on a night safari to see wildebeasts, springbok, water buffalo, giraffee, hippos!!! and a bunch of other animals and spelling and what not.... I then when on a horseback riding safari, met a relative (basically this guy said the farthest back he traced his family was to Jamaica as Mackenzie!!), joined in on a weekend of sport to play doubles tennis, drink a lot of pims, flash the opposing tug of war team (they dropped the rope needless to say) and then I went water skiing!!!!! for those of you who know me and who know my balance issues (ie. lack there off - re: snowboarding incident) that is a big deal... but when you have a bunch of beautiful Kenyan boys teaching you and you are in the water with hippos you better damn
Lake Naivasha - sunset after day on lake
I have a million of them! how can you take your eyes away ... well, when you see a hippo! well get up!
So... now I will try to put up these photos and show you
Lake Naivasha - sunset after day on lake
I have a million of them! how can you take your eyes away ... well, when you see a hippo!all the beauty. I will put up a special entry full of photos from my entire trip, begining to end, all the good ones that I don't have the patience to add on bush time.
Leaving Naivasha and my hosts for Kisii and the unknown was very hard.... especially the 7 hour bus ride crammed in with suitcases and babies and quite a strong smell of body odor.... But the kids where calling me.... so, next issue I will tell you all about Kisii and the children and my new project!
Much Love.... and, well.... maybe you all will visit me in Kenya if I dont come home!
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i have to say that I am extremely jealous of you tessa! your out in the sun and on lovely adventures, while I have been spending my days in the house with my books! Hope it carries on being amazing! x x x x