Tuesday morning Nairobi time,
Greetings family and friends,
This evening we board a plane for Zurich, then to Frankfort, then to Denver. We will be leaving Africa and heading back to the home of good water and steady electricity (which hasn't been much of an issue in Nairobi). These last few days in Nairobi have been interesting. We visited a project of Habitat for Humanity in the Rift Valley where the Office of African Instituted Churches, where Phyllis Byrd works, is participating in the construction of a house. Then we enjoyed an afternoon at the National Museum on Saturday. On Sunday we attended a lively church service with Phyllis and the five Presbyterian Young Adult Volunteers. Services here last 2 hours. Afterwards we went to a fabulous buffet at the Intercontinental Hotel. It had all sorts of meats and vegetables and desserts and salads. We spent the whole afternoon there so Phyllis' daughter could swim in the pool. The Young Adults enjoyed all the food as well. Pricey but good! So, we decided to let that big dinner take the place of going to another famous restaurant called Carnivores. Yesterday we went to another slum area and visited two schools. Children are all well disciplined and, in this case, the schools were a bit more "modern" than the one we visited last week. Grounds were cleaner but classroom sizes were still 50+.
We aren"t sure what will happen today. Phyllis is busy with arrangements for the death of a famous Nobel prize winner for the Environment, Wangari Maathai. Reading about her has been interesting. She was major lead in encouraging Kenyans to plant more trees throughout the land. Millions of trees have been planted because of her efforts. Kenyan forests have been devastated over the years so Agroforestry is being encouraged on private lands. The public lands need much attention too. Anyway, Ms. Wangari really pushed for the environmental improvements. She won the Nobel prize in 2004. I wish she would have pushed for vehicle emission controls. Fumes here are sickening. Thank goodness we have the EPA.
It will be nice to get back and go through all our photos. There are well over 1000.
Our next posting, The Epilogue, will be sent from our home computer if it knows how to turn on after a month of inactivity.
A la Salama,
Phil and Marcia
Greetings family and friends,
This evening we board a plane for Zurich, then to Frankfort, then to Denver. We will be leaving Africa and heading back to the home of good water and steady electricity (which hasn't been much of an issue in Nairobi). These last few days in Nairobi have been interesting. We visited a project of Habitat for Humanity in the Rift Valley where the Office of African Instituted Churches, where Phyllis Byrd works, is participating in the construction of a house. Then we enjoyed an afternoon at the National Museum on Saturday. On Sunday we attended a lively church service with Phyllis and the five Presbyterian Young Adult Volunteers. Services here last 2 hours. Afterwards we went to a fabulous buffet at the Intercontinental Hotel. It had all sorts of meats and vegetables and desserts and salads. We spent the whole afternoon there so Phyllis' daughter could swim in the pool. The Young Adults enjoyed all the food as well. Pricey but good! So, we decided to let that big dinner take the place of going to another famous restaurant called Carnivores. Yesterday we went to another slum area and visited two schools. Children are all well disciplined and, in this case, the schools were a bit more "modern" than the one we visited last week. Grounds were cleaner but classroom sizes were still 50+.
We aren"t sure what will happen today. Phyllis is busy with arrangements for the death of a famous Nobel prize winner for the Environment, Wangari Maathai. Reading about her has been interesting. She was major lead in encouraging Kenyans to plant more trees throughout the land. Millions of trees have been planted because of her efforts. Kenyan forests have been devastated over the years so Agroforestry is being encouraged on private lands. The public lands need much attention too. Anyway, Ms. Wangari really pushed for the environmental improvements. She won the Nobel prize in 2004. I wish she would have pushed for vehicle emission controls. Fumes here are sickening. Thank goodness we have the EPA.
It will be nice to get back and go through all our photos. There are well over 1000.
Our next posting, The Epilogue, will be sent from our home computer if it knows how to turn on after a month of inactivity.
A la Salama,
Phil and Marcia
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