(Technically this occurred on Thursday, July 28, but we can't figure out how to post date it in this thing)
Tonight we landed in Nairobi and Jommo Kenyatta airport, twenty minutes late due to an unexplained delay out of Amsterdam. The tiny airport, like many of its class in the third world, has been punching for so long above its weight that each new flight exhausts everything associated with it: the ground crew, the terminal, the baggage claim, so much that even the paint seemed to wish for simpler times (by my estimation, sometime in the mid-seventies). We waited an hour for our last bag to show up--the baggage cart no doubt fearing another round at the antique carrousel--before we could begin traveling across town to our new home in the Gigiri area of Nairobi.
We arrived and were very happy to see the townhouse we will be living in for the next two years, a definite upgrade from our current place back home (no offense condo, you served us well). The next day, Friday, we slept in, unpacked, then started the checkin process for work, getting the internet setup, and getting a few provisions for the place. Feeling slightly more settled in after all of that, we went to dinner at the restaurant in our housing compound then retired to our couch to watch a grand total of 30 minutes of "Munich" before falling asleep.
Tonight we landed in Nairobi and Jommo Kenyatta airport, twenty minutes late due to an unexplained delay out of Amsterdam. The tiny airport, like many of its class in the third world, has been punching for so long above its weight that each new flight exhausts everything associated with it: the ground crew, the terminal, the baggage claim, so much that even the paint seemed to wish for simpler times (by my estimation, sometime in the mid-seventies). We waited an hour for our last bag to show up--the baggage cart no doubt fearing another round at the antique carrousel--before we could begin traveling across town to our new home in the Gigiri area of Nairobi.
We arrived and were very happy to see the townhouse we will be living in for the next two years, a definite upgrade from our current place back home (no offense condo, you served us well). The next day, Friday, we slept in, unpacked, then started the checkin process for work, getting the internet setup, and getting a few provisions for the place. Feeling slightly more settled in after all of that, we went to dinner at the restaurant in our housing compound then retired to our couch to watch a grand total of 30 minutes of "Munich" before falling asleep.
Sorry, I might begin spamming you with comments. You can change the date at the bottom of the page right before you post (click post options). It took me two years to realize this.
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