And another thing...

Actually I just forgot to mention the few hundred photos we'll upload shortly. Nothing too exciting. That is all

Sunny days, sweeping the clouds away....

Day 5 in Africa and all things are going well. I'm currently using the girls' internet as the internet in the guys room is absolutely woeful, still, apart from interweb problems the trip so far has been truly amazing!

After getting in mid afternoon on Tuesday we came straight to Safari Park. I'm not entirely sure you would call Safari Park an African experience... but the drive here definitely was!! I am still amazed that 2 lane roads can fit quite a lot more than 2 vehicles on them hehe. Nothing too interesting was happening for the rest of the night apart from a lot of ooo'ing and aaaa'ing at the room Daniel, Daz and I had. It had to be the size of a largeish apartment, so between 3 people it was a lot of fun. We even had an industrial sized kitchen, which was really useful for the three of us...

Hmmmm, what else? A lot's been happening so I think I'll leave more news until the next blog, which for all of you, will be tomorrow. The next few will be a lot more interesting though, between childrens home stuff, sleeping in a $10 per night room in a hotel in Kiambu, visiting downtown Nairobi and Tammy getting hassled to buy some stone necklace as well as the one everyone's waiting for... the chickens!

I'll keep you posted
James

19 hours and counting

Currently I'm getting some odds and ends ready for the actual packing of my suitcase in the morning. One would assume that, being my first overseas trip, I would have completed all such preparation... but no, unfortunately not. Though It's pretty much ready to shove in the suitcase, so I'm being optimistic about time frames at the moment!

I have to say, one of the most exciting things for me is just that God's really here in this trip, it seems everyone on the team has something significant that they want to do there or that they want to see happen in faith... as they step in faith actually going to another continent. For me, I'm really looking forward to visiting some local churches in Nairobi, in the local communities and in the slums. It seems like it's going to be an amazing opportunity to see people who live with almost nothing still praising God and giving thanks and still dedicating their lives to him, compared to my own sometimes "comfortable" faith. Really, whatever it may be that we are impacted by on this trip, It seems rather sure that it will be an amazing eye-opening experience and something I don't think I'm ready for in the slightest... which is probably a good thing!

James

Africa and thereafter

So this is the beginning of what I anticipate to be a rather exciting blog, provided I pay it the attention it deserves. I'll be posting about Africa while I'm there, when I stumble upon internet access, sharing my random thoughts on life, the universe and everything and probably flooding it with the multitudinous folders of photos I take from day to day.

So here's to the inaugural blog and the anticipation of at least a few more to come.

Also, it's 2am, so the putting together of the words with the sentences doing is not so much right now.

http://www.africa-australia.org/exchange.htm is the Africa/Australia exchange website, check it out, details after the jump