Hello from Turi in Kenya!
We hope you're all well back home. We have arrived safely at the school which is amaaaaazing! Staff are lovely and we have had a fab lunch. We then got shown to our house which is...phenomenal... A three bedroom house with beautiful front garden (with allotment for growing veg!) and a beautiful back garden full of flowers, a perfectly mown lawn and an amazing view out over Turi and the hills.
Our 'staff' were waiting for us at the house and Leah the house girl and Jackson the gardener are absolute beauties so that's gonna be great getting to know them and she has promised to teach us swahili too and her local language which is so exciting!
The countryside on the drive over was absolutely stunning, rolling green hills, zebras, flat (bizarre) trees, can't wait to explore which will start on saturday (Rach's birthday too of course) when we're going on a shopping trip to Nakuru. For the time being we are just settling into our house, enjoying the heat and hopefully gonna get Jackson to build us a BBQ in the garden so we can get some parties going soon... We'll send through lots of photos onto the blog when we've managed to get them off my camera.
Right, having just had lunch its now nearly time for dinner-we love it here! Feels like home from home, they drive on our side of the road, signs all in English etc so feel really settled already. We are so grateful to God for his provision of these jobs and all the many blessings so far (not least of which that all our baggage arrived safely straight to our door with no cost whatsoever :-)
We'd love to hear from you on the blog (email and facebook should be working soon but not quite sure yet!) Please let us know how you're doing and we'll be in touch again soon.
God bless!
D & R x
How exciting! What a fantastic bunch of answers to prayer. Enjoy the 'honeymoon' period :o) -- may it last as long as you're in Kenya! Your godson seems excited by all the good news ... he and I are just about to head off to the Post Office to put something in the mail to you.
ReplyDeleteAsante sana (can't remember what that means but I'm pretty sure it's Swahili -- hello, goodbye or how are you...)!
D
P.S. How do I get it to send me emails when you update this?
ReplyDeleteAll sounds great! You don't get 'staff' in Manchester!
ReplyDeleteDave: you can get email notifications using a site such as http://www.shootthebreeze.net/blogalert/ ... personally i add all the blogs i read to google reader to keep up with them