NAIROBI ARRIVAL AS PLANNED

     It’s Tuesday morning in Nairobi. I arrived late last night as scheduled and got an amazingly good sleep at the Maryknoll house here. That is not a sure thing depending on how much rest I get on the planes getting here. Actually I did sleep pretty well on all three legs: to and from Dallas and from London. I read a little and watched a couple movies so it was a relatively smooth trip despite the lack of internet in the airports, until I was about to leave London (Heathow). That was a little frustrating, but I finally tried resetting my iPod settings and that finally worked. As usual I left my mobile phone at home with my sister, since I have no use for it here. I have a mobile phone here in Nairobi and hope to reactivate that number for Kenya and another for Tanzania. After 7 months of no use I’m sure both sim cards have been deactivated. 

       I got very sad news this morning via email from my sister. My twin brother had a doctor’s appointment Monday and it seems his health is failing much faster than anticipated. So I will stay here in Nairobi for at least a week, until I decide what to do. I have a meeting tomorrow with a website engineer that I have been working with online for the new Kowak Hospital website and potentially the Girl’s Secondary School site. Fortunately there will be a lot of lay missioners coming thru here in the next few days that I am anxious to see. In fact I just had breakfast with two of them this morning; Tara with Cross International (formerly a Maryknoll Lay Missioner) and Cindy Korb from Tonganoxie.

        Tara and her manager, Dave, from FL are here on business for a few days and Cindy has been here about two weeks for physical therapy for her back. He husband John is teaching in Kitale, where they live as lay missioners. Brother Frank Tenhoppen is also here from NY. He has been home for health reason for over a year. We are expecting Russ Brine from Kitale to arrive this week-end on his way to Cambodia. He has been a lay missioner here over 12 yrs and is thinking of changing countries. It will be great to see him again. Also the young couple living in Mombasa are coming in with their two children and it has been many years since I’ve seen them.