Living the Adventure! This is going to be my primary contact with the outside world! I'll try to keep you all updated as often as i can! I miss you guys! xoxox

Habari za asubuhi, (goodmorning in local speak!) Well hello, it has been a few days! From where i left off... i arrived safe enough in johannesburg, squashed in like a sardine next to a very annoying south african couple with the combined ages of about 200. The man snored and the the lady wouldnt stop talking to me... even when i had my headphones in and repeated ‘sorry i didnt quite hear that’ for an hour. I think that i must have been put in with all of the assisted travellers because of the 20 seats in the section i was sitting in ( i somehow ended up in the section between business and economy classes) there were 3 famililes with a total of 7 children under 4, seriously like 10 people aged over 100 who were constantly woken to see if they were still alive... well thats what it looked like!! Anyway i made it... found my way to the hotel, spent an hour on the phone trying to reach Oz to let jeff know i made it safe because my optus phone still doesnt work!!! Spent another hour crying then finally got through. Slept wonderfully, nothing kills an appitite more than guilt, and i felt so guilty leaving jeff! Made it through to Nairobi, straight to bed again without dinner. Couldnt speak to Jeff becasue it was a national holiday in kenya, a celebration of independance and nothing was open so i couldnt buy a sim or a phone card and the place i was staying has no phone or internet connection. So i cried to a stranger and borrowed an sms which turns out didnt even work so both jeff and i couldnt sleep!! Its always the way!! The flight to Kisumu was one of the scariest things i have ever done... the plane was the size of my bedroom packed to the rafters... my hand luggage bags didnt even fit in the overhead compartment but we made it. There was a kenyan football team on board who sang the whole way... they didnt mind me laughing at them, although if i wasnt a mzungu it may have been a dfferent story! Kisumu is horribly hot this time of year. I straightened my hair but you couldnt tell because of the humiditiy... so i think the 10kgs of hair care products and straighteners and dryers are a tad overkill... but they will come in handy in Europe! I ventured out into the Kisumu nightclubs on Saturday night to find that the 2 people i was looking forward to seeing most, Joe and Tina, were in fact in nairobi! But i got to catch up with manyof the local identities so that made me happy! I saw Joe on Monday and will be seeing tina this coming weekend which i am very excited about! Im now sitting my room at the Rangala babies home, one of the most luxurios places i have ever been in Kenya, i have 2 rooms to myself, a fridge, a cook top, a tv, a dvd player and an operational bathroom! Its amazing and the sisters who run the home are always fussing over me and checking if i am ok! Its like a holiday here with them!! I am looking foward to getting stuck into the school in january and until them helping out here at the babies home, on the upside i dont have very far to go while i am staying here! I miss everyone so much!! Blink blink blink ~ for those of u that it applies to. Love love love ~ for those of you that it applies to. And for everyone else, here is my love. I miss you all so much xoxoxo