So I said..."I'll Be Back..."

I landed in JKIA Nairobi at about 8:30pm.
By 10pm I was still waiting for my luggage. (Thankfully it did eventually arrive)
I was picked up by the usual ICYE taxi guy, Peter who dropped me in the YMCA.
This was almost a direct repeat of January 2010, except this time I think I was possibly a little less nervous than before.
I called ICYE to see what was planned for Saturday and found out that I would be attending a training put on for local co workers/volunteers who help out with orientation/supporting international volunteers. I was pretty tired and not so excited to be getting up at 6:30am. But it was a good training for me to go to.
I was able to meet some of the local volunteers and get to know more about their role within ICYE. (Might as well hit the ground running hey?!)
They are all really nice people and hopefully I will be able to work with them a bit more once we figure out what my actual role will be over the next 6 months.

So today is Sunday and I thankfully didn't have anything that I needed to do. I'm staying in a guesthouse near to the ICYE office until Wednesday or until a host family is found for me to stay with. I'm a little nervous of moving in with a new host family, especially since last year I had the most awesome family in Kiptere. But I know that I need to take this as a brand new experience and not compare to the past or even have many of the same expectations as before.

My orientation begins tomorrow and hopefully I will begin to settle into life in Nairobi. (One thing I did say last year was that I hated this city...so I hope that I can learn to like living here and become accustomed to the bustle of the big city.)

I have so many ideas of what I might be doing while I'm here and probably none of them will actually work out the way I expect but "TIA-This is Africa" after all...

It's a new adventure and who knows I might be changed by this experience...

(I know that there are things people have said to me about volunteering again and about me as growing as a person, this is just a little nod to you guys, I've not forgotten and I did listen to you. I'll do my best!)


Almost Lastly, I don't have a PO Box address yet, but I do love post....Writing and receiving...
so send me your address and I'd love to write to you (only condition being, you think about writing back!)

Finally....

I want to say best of luck to all of the other EVS volunteers on this project all over the world (especially ALEX PERRY in Brazil!) and all ICYE volunteers everywhere.
You are all awesome and are inspiring people the world over,
Even if it doesn't feel like it, Keep up the good work!


*Want to do this kind of thing too?? Check out ICYE UK *