June 2, 2007 Nairobi Airport We sleep most of the way to Kenya, but wake easily, excited to finally be in Africa. I look out the window as we taxi: green fields and acacia trees, distant hills. The airport is not a big place; it is not crowded. We walk through the jetway and into […]
Read moreJune 1-2 Airports of the World We travel as a team and, for this leg of the journey, are 19 in number. Jim has divided us into smaller groups, and the three leaders are responsible for keeping tabs on our whereabouts. Added to this security, everyone on the team is looking out for the children, […]
Read moreJune 2, 2007 Dubai Airport When in the Middle East, do not smile randomly at strange Arabic (or Other) men– even if it is your habit to do so when at home.
Read moreIn addition placing screens throughout the airplane’s cabin, Emirates Airlines provides every passenger with his own personal t.v. screen on the seatback in front of him. The uses of this screen are many, but among the most fascinating is views one can have from below the plane and just in front of it. There is […]
Read moreJune 1, 2007, Kennedy International Airport Our minds are set on the journey ahead. All we can think of is Kenya– and Dubai, our second stop. We look for the Emirates airplanes from the airport train. My mind is so focused on what we’re going to see and do that it comes to me only […]
Read moreJune 1, 2007 It is Very Hard to get a good night’s sleep the night before one travels to a developing nation– particularly if one has never been to a developing nation before.
Read moreWhen I knew, at the beginning of this day, that my afternoon would close with a visit to an internet cafe, I thought I would be able to write of this day’s activities. Alas, that is not the case. I and four others from our team spent the day in Kochogoro, a slum of such […]
Read moreSo the first strong images of Africa in my mind are born of Out of Africa, a film that paints the Kenyan landscape with sweeping and gorgeous landscapes. The deep red soil of Karen Blixen’s coffee plantation, the acacia trees that grow up and then flatten towards the tops, the vast distances of land and […]
Read moreO Reader, I Am sorry. I want to write more. I really do. And I do (are you surprised?) have so much to say. But my brain, it would appear, has gone to bed. And shortly– Very Shortly– I must go, too. We are getting up at five in the morning; we are leaving for […]
Read moreTrinity School has a half-day kindergarten. This is a rare commodity these days: working parents and busy schedules have determined that children ages five and six years old don’t need a shorter school day. They can handle a day that’s just as long as a first-grader, or even a sixth grader. And they do. But […]
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