KENYAN TRAVELING!!!!

Our train did not leave in 7. It left at 7:30. Then when we had dinner where they stopped again for 1 hour. Then our train left but went extremely slow and stopped a few times. They had the lights turn of at some point during the night. So we slept. I skipped breakfast, and had a tad bit of rice for last nights dinner. I did have a protein bar. Our train’s engine stopped working 3 hours outside of Nairobi. I was ready to walk and take a matatu but Tani said no. We finally left and reached Nairobi at 1; we checked the email, got Njoroge’s number. Called Njoroge, realized it was Joyce’s number and then told them we are leaving Nairobi. We had a mama take us the long way around to the matatu station. We were charged 350 for a direct trip that stopped multiple times. When we asked for our change we were told that we would both have to pay 300 for luggage, but he had initially told us it would be 350 for both. So we ended up saying instead of an addition 600 for luggage we would pay only 300. We left Nairobi at 1:30 PM. A 2 hour trip took nearly 4.5. We arrived at Nyeri and asked a girl to use her phone which we used to text Joyce saying we just arrived. We asked a mama to go to upper stage and then called Joyce and said we are in a matatu. They said it would go haraka haraka, (fast). They did not leave before 8 (nearly 2 hours later). A brother from Brother David’s school met us and said that Njoroge and Brother David waited for us. We provided our itinerary and apologized for the delay. Anyways it took so long cause they were trying to fill the matatu. We finally left and we asked another lady if we could use her cell. Then Njoroge called her periodically to see where we were as he would meet us on the side of the road. The matatu went pole pole (slowly) and stopped at every pothole. Poor Laura, had to eat her anti-malarial on an empty stomach and was sick, and I was upset at the matatu drivers saying haraka haraka haraka haraka. We finally arrived at 10 PM to a homemade cooked meal of Mokimo, sukuma, and meat and vegetables. Joyce’s homemade cooking is soooooooo yummy. Laura fell asleep but Njoroge and I stayed up till 1:30 AM talking about everything and just catching up. It was a surreal moment indeed.