We got back to Nairobi today. Since our safari and Kisumu it's sort of been working time... back to the schools for some, guitar teaching for some, repair work around the community for some. Kim and I were supposed to be doing some more recording but the electricity went all wonky... wild, unusable fluctuations in voltage. Same problem with the generator. After a few days of that, a call was finally placed to the Kenya Power Company. Yesterday, late afternoon, the power went off for 15 minutes, and then came back all good. So we raced into the church with all the gear and tried one more song until the sun went down. We'll see if it's usable. In the last week, the wind came up badly every afternoon and evening making the church building howl and pieces of sheet metal flap up and down. No exception for yesterday.
A couple highlights of the last few days for me were visiting with the PLHA's (People Living with HIV/AIDS) in this area. Many stories of thankfulness to God and MCC's support... I also had the chance to video Joseph testing a young man from the community. We're creating a small video to be used locally telling people why they need to be tested and sharing what the process looks like. It seems like it could be a very useful tool.
Anyway, after some tough good-byes, a trip to Mount Suswa to see the crater and climb around in some caves this morning, into Nairobi in the afternoon, and debriefing this evening. We part company tomorrow morning. The Thiessens, Boehligs and Kari back to Canada in the eve, the NB's, Jesse and Clare to join friends of the NB's on the coast for a few days. Sitting on the beach is the agenda... somewhere south of Mombassa. Then Jesse and Clare are back in Najile for another week.
OK, so that was the update. Hopefully someone will post something a bit more reflective tomorrow morning. Take care all.
Oh, Michael, "Pumba" refers to the warthogs we saw. I think that's the name of the warthog in the Lion King.
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