Hey friends!
So, as you may have heard, I am going back to Kenya this week until mid July. I am currently in Santa Cruz, Ca at the public library with my brother Kurt and his wife Nienke. I am enjoying a few relaxing days with them before heading out to New York city early tomorrow morning. I am looking forward to visiting my dear friend Valerie, who I have known since I was 3 years old! This saturday, March 31st, I will board the plane for London, then on to Nairobi.
I have been thinking a lot about how different it will be arriving in Kenya for the second time. It has been almost exactly a year since I left Kenya last spring. The Nairobi airport has a funny floating body odor smell to it, that I remember trying to label as soon as I walked off the plane last time. The bus ride from Nairobi to Kisumu last year was my first exposure to Africa. The 7 hours of staring out the window, jiggling up and down to the rythm of the potholes, not knowing much about anything I was seeing, was like an introduction, a welcome. I am looking forward to another welcome of the same sort, but this time it will be less foreign, although I am still a foreigner but now it is so familiar and natural, and I can't quite predict my reaction to it yet.
