Hey everyone,
I am finally here!!
It was a very exciting and thrilling plane trip (not). We flew south towards the south pole and then east over the north part of the south pole. The cool thing was I saw massive ice bergs, like massive massive ones. I'm sure the penguins were hidden down there somewhere too :) Apart from that it was a matter of playing a bad version of tetris, thrashing clare in yennef and moving restlessly around my seat.
We arrived in Johannesburg and there was such a beautiful sunset! But we ended up in not such a beautiful queue :( There were about 8 flights that had come in at the same time and they all formed one queue. So if you can imagine what that is like in a stuffy airport when my body thinks it's 2 in the morning...
Clunken's cousin met us and drove us back to her house for the night. She hosted us SO well sigh. I got a pretty good sleep and we drove back to the airport in the morning to fly up to Nairobi. On the way we passed Alexandria, the second biggest township in south africa. 3 million people live there, it's pretty sad, but it doesn't look nearly as bad as the slums in Nairobi.
We flew over zimbabwe, Malawi (Lake Malawai) and Tanzania. At the Nairobi airport we waited 3 hours to be picked up and finally caught a taxi. Wayne met us at the airport and we were waiting to be picked up but our lift didn't come. So we had our first full Kenyan experience on the roads; that was pretty interesting haha :) It's just a matter of forming your own lanes, barging in within millimetres of other cars and beeping your horn endlessly. We almost crashed into a matatu (mini-van) that veered out in front of us from a side road. Our taxi driver yelled at him and he yelled back, "are you nuts?? Now that I've passed you can go!!"
hmmm...
well we finally got to the guest house and met the rest of the american team and crashed into bed.
I am finally here!!
It was a very exciting and thrilling plane trip (not). We flew south towards the south pole and then east over the north part of the south pole. The cool thing was I saw massive ice bergs, like massive massive ones. I'm sure the penguins were hidden down there somewhere too :) Apart from that it was a matter of playing a bad version of tetris, thrashing clare in yennef and moving restlessly around my seat.
We arrived in Johannesburg and there was such a beautiful sunset! But we ended up in not such a beautiful queue :( There were about 8 flights that had come in at the same time and they all formed one queue. So if you can imagine what that is like in a stuffy airport when my body thinks it's 2 in the morning...
Clunken's cousin met us and drove us back to her house for the night. She hosted us SO well sigh. I got a pretty good sleep and we drove back to the airport in the morning to fly up to Nairobi. On the way we passed Alexandria, the second biggest township in south africa. 3 million people live there, it's pretty sad, but it doesn't look nearly as bad as the slums in Nairobi.
We flew over zimbabwe, Malawi (Lake Malawai) and Tanzania. At the Nairobi airport we waited 3 hours to be picked up and finally caught a taxi. Wayne met us at the airport and we were waiting to be picked up but our lift didn't come. So we had our first full Kenyan experience on the roads; that was pretty interesting haha :) It's just a matter of forming your own lanes, barging in within millimetres of other cars and beeping your horn endlessly. We almost crashed into a matatu (mini-van) that veered out in front of us from a side road. Our taxi driver yelled at him and he yelled back, "are you nuts?? Now that I've passed you can go!!"
hmmm...
well we finally got to the guest house and met the rest of the american team and crashed into bed.
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