JAMBO!

Jambo (hello)!!! We've made it to Kenya. Here's an update on what's going on...it has been a rocky start.
We met at the San Antonio airport at 6am Thursday morning. When we got there, we found out or flight to Detroit had been delayed 4 hours and we would miss our connecting flights. After much negotiating, we were able to get new flights but we had to fly to Houston, Atlanta, and then on to Amsterdam, Nairobi, and Mombassa. I became VERY sick on the flight to Amsterdam. I think it was either the medications I'm taking or the food on the plane. I ended up throwing up MANY times and was sick for several hours. The entire time we were traveling I felt horrible. We made it to the hotel in Mombassa after 1am on Friday night. My roomate (Amber) and I were left on the rooming list but that was resolved very quickly.
Today was just a day to relax and get on the right time. I slept late and then ate lunch with the team and had a meeting. After that I walked down to the beach with a team member but came back to the hotel very quickly. There are ALOT of local people on the villages trying to get you to buy things. They will follow you and not stop talking to you. It was pretty frustrating so we came back. After that I've just been laying around and took a nap. We're getting ready to have dinner as a team and then it will probably be time to go to bed.
The hotel is very nice for this area. The food is good and we have air conditioning and running water. We can't drink the water or brush our team with it, but we're so lucky that we have such nice accomadations.
Tomorrow morning we will be walking to a local church and then Monday starts our mission work in the villages.
That's all for now! I will post more in the next day or two.