Day 14- January 9, 2011

Well, from one journal writing of being full of food to the next. After the plane ride, we landed in Nairobi and went straight to the Maasai Market. That place was insane! You could get anything there but unfortunately I didn’t have enough money to buy all the gifts I wanted. Whenever the people see us mzungus coming the mzungu prices for the items come out… and they’re way higher than the normal price, so I’m out of spending money basically the moment I left there… still being followed by the people trying to sell me stuff or trying to trade for my shirt, a wife-beater that I’ve worn the past 3 days… ewww. Well, we went to Java House afterwards and all I’m thinking now is that was amazing! We had 1000 shillings to spend on dinner, and believe me, we all stretched that out well. I got a pineapple juice, orange Fanta, fries, bacon burger, and a New York cheesecake, to go along with the fruit salad, chocolate fudge cake, and red velvet cake that I helped people eat. Yeah, I may have gone over-board, and so did every other guy on the trip as well. The amount of food and change in diet was not good to do the way we did. I believe every guy would attest to that fact. Well, after we waddled out of there, we went back to Shalom House, and we got SHOWERS! Haha, it doesn’t seem like too great of a deal, but believe me, it was awesome! We did some more awesome and hilarious team feet washing before hopping in bed (thanks Brooks for being delirious). I was trading a bed and a mosquito net (skeptical one at that considering I woke up with a bite) for the starry night I once had in the sand (just one night before, if you forgot). It already seems far off while I’m only 30 hours removed from Turkana. Wow, that kills me!

Well, besides being “homesick” (of Turkana), our team was doing a safari. All of Bread of Life’s mission trips end this way apparently. We got on the matatus (safari vans) and rode about 6 hours on the bumpiest terrain ever, but when we arrived…this place was posh. Too posh. It kinda broke me to see this resort in the middle of nowhere that we were given  a chance to enjoy, while we passed boma after boma on the way to it that were still in 10 times better shape than the ones in Turkana. As we went out on the safari, it really was awesome that we got to see so many awesome animals: lions, giraffes, elephants, water buffalo… but throughout conversation we continued to circle back to Turkana and what God did there and what He was going to continue to do there. I really am enjoying myself and I’m taking this time as a complete blessing, but I’m taking it with a grain of salt.



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