We're finally here - we're in Kenya.
Months and months of planning finally led to the moment we were all eagerly waiting for.
It was always hypothetical, that we'll actually board a plane and travel to the African continent, to a sub-Saharan country. As if the vaccinations didn't already make this all seem so real.
We kid you not when we say that the one thing running through our minds was, "are we really doing this?" from the moment we said our goodbyes to our parents, to our drive to the airport, at the airport's Duty Free, while sitting on our seats, during take-off, whilst having our lunch on the plane, landing in Nairobi, checking into our rooms then finally sitting down for an actual meal.
"Are we really doing this?" soon turned into "I can't believe we're doing this!". It was after we landed on another continent did we start questioning what possessed us to travel as part of a graduation project, but then we were reminded of the reason why we're here: to promote self-education to students through social media.
Booklets were printed out (in case the internet failed us), surveys were created to gather information and to measure our success, syllabi's were compiled to make this legit and a website was launched which will serve as our main teaching tool (check it out
here!). Tomorrow, we teach!
Here are some pictures of our Kenyan journey:
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| Flight EK 719 to Nairobi, Kenya, is now boarding |
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| No turning back now! |
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| Yalla, we're moving! |
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| Bye Bye Dubai |
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| One last look at the Arabian Peninsula... |
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| ...As we approach the African continent |
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| First glimpse of Kenya |
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| Landed in Nairobi |
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| Got all our luggage and boxes of give-aways to the students! |
Everyone's been so gracious to us here and the cool weather is a far cry from the dust and heat of Dubai.
Tomorrow's another day with another post.
Al Bedaya - signing out.
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