Well this is the last blog entry from me of this trip, I am hoping that you have found the entries informative and I can only hope that you may have found them even mildly entertaining.
Instead of me rattling on again, hooray I here you shout, I have decided that this last blog should be from everyone, and as such I have asked everyone to tell me their best and worse parts of the trip and their favourite quote. Some of these will possibly make no sense to you but will give you the chance to ask them (and of course make them squirm) as they try and answer!
So here goes with the worse parts of the trip:
- Kenya belly
- The smells on the bus
- Long flight and feeling helpless at the orphanage
- The toilets that are just a hole
- Thinking of the worse and best bits
- Lion Hill
- Brendon’s haggling stories
- Accounts on Saturdays meal and stepping in dog S***
- Disagreement over the money at Nyrei
- Food at Lion Hill
- Arriving at the first hotel and being two rooms short
- The possibility that monies donated to headquarters in Kenya may not reach the intended recipients.
- Plane journey
- Leaving Harambee
- It’s a fecking giraffe picture
- Harambee, spending times with the kids
- Sense of achievement and seeing the real Kenya
- Renewing the promise at BP’s grave
- Visit to the orphanage
- The elephants at The Ark
- The projects
- The whole trip has been amazing
- The children at Harambee
- Carnivore ambiance
- Seeing all the wildlife
- Colouring with the children
- Being at BP’s grave
- Reading the promise at the grave
- Being able to pass on the knowledge of the founders resting place and twinning with the Nyrei troop based at the BP Centre
- The friendships made on the trip/adventure
- Completing the projects that we came to do and making many new friends
Quotes of the trip:
- “I’ve got an IBE”
- “It’s good to have a hobby”
- “A wee hare”
- On passing a cemetery in Nairobi somebody said “That’s the dead centre of Nairobi” followed by a very serious “Is it?”
- To Gabrielle sung “you’re the best around”
- “It’s only one night”
- “We’re singing in the rain”
- “How many shops to buy a complete toilet”
- “How much is that in sterling”
- “Job done and dusted”
- “ ........... give us a wave”
- “That reminds me of a story about ........”
- “Walk beside me as my friend”
Sorry I know I said I wasn’t going to make this about my thoughts but I felt I needed to say this in summary. During this trip somebody came up with a deep and meaningful comment that went something like, “You can plant a seed but you don’t know if it will grow”.
Just over 15 months ago two individuals made a promise to return to Kenya and planted the seed, on the 16 April 2011 22 people were able to take part in their promise. I want to take this chance to thank them for letting me and 19 other people to be part of that promise.
thanks for the early morning text steve.
ReplyDeleteleft kenya on time so should see you in a couple of hours at the airport