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We also ended up making a new friend. He lives in town and is currently in secondary school, which from my understanding is kind of like our version of high school. He seems to be a good kid and have a good head on his shoulders. He came up to me and asked if I played football. I wasn’t sure if he meant soccer or American football. For those that don’t know, soccer is huge in Kenya. But anyway, back to the matter at hand, he was actually talking about American football. He pretended to throw me a football, but I didn’t really know what he was doing or talking about, so it was kind of interesting. We got talking with him, and we hope that we’ll be able to get him to come and hang out at the university for a bit, sometime in the next couple of weeks.
After church, we packed up and made it to our reservation at Rolf’s Place. A restaurant and resort. It was spectacular. When you first drive up, you drive through this huge entrance, then we were greeted by one of the Masai Mara worriors (not sure if he was actually a worrier or not, but that’s what I’m going to call him.). He then escorted us to this bridge, which we were told that only six of us could cross at a time. So this bridge that were were crossing is not just some regular bridge, this is a suspension bridge that you have to cross, which basically crosses over a ginormous canyon that has a river flowing through below. It was pretty neat. It’s just unfortunate that the weather wasn’t great for photos, but you can see a bit of what I’m talking about below.

Let me tell you, if the realization that I wasn’t in the states any more wasn’t apparent, it sure was revealed to me by the traffic, driving on the left side of the road, seeing mass quantities of people walking, sitting, and living their lives on the side of the road. Not to mention, we are in bumper to bumper traffic and while we are at a stand still we have people walking in the middle of the road, through traffic, trying to sell us a multitude array of items, items such as fresh fruit, newspaper, ice cream, etc. You see it in the movies, but to actually witness something of this nature, is so bizarre. It really makes one thankful that I live somewhere, where there is order, and people abide by the laws that have been set, at least most of the time. But at the same token it makes you realize just how sheltered we are (we being me). It’s interesting how something someone would consider normal, is so not the norm for others.

As we started up the hill to African Nazarene University, I finally witnessed shanties, some would call them huts and/or make shift homes. I don’t think you can ever be prepared to see that type of living, which I thought I would be prepared for, since we are exposed to it on TV, all the time, but it’s unreal. Nothing could quite prepare you to see people live like that. I really makes me feel so fortunate, so blessed, and I’m coming to a conclusion that I am way to sheltered. I hope and pray that God can continue to grow me and make me the man that he would like me to be. That He can give me a heart of compassion and the ability to love. I want to be that person, who can have a conversation with anyone, where God can radiate from my life and I’m not disabled by my fears and insecurities. I guess being in a new and foreign place, and putting individuals into our paths, puts me in a place where I have no choice but to open up, taking me away from my the things that I find comfortable. I guess here’s to doing things that make me uncomfortable. As I hear many of the people say, cheers for now!

Any way, we board our next flight, which is luckily only a two hour flight to Kenya. Soon we make it to our final destination.