Arrival in Nairobi

I arrive on time (9:20 pm), flying into Kenyatta Airport from London. Unfortunately, the line to get a visa to enter the country is quite long and there are only two attendants. But things go fairly smoothly; the process appears to be mostly a rubber stamp of everyone coming through. I don’t see anyone questioned or detained because of their application. Perhaps the $50 USD fee is the main concern.

No problems clearing customs. I have one extra bag, so they want to know what I am bringing in. I mention the books and DVDs that Alan Collins has sent for the school, and they immediately want to see the DVDs. When they see they are more of an educational nature, they let us go on.

I am greeted by Judith Collins as well as and Eben Yoon (Academic Dean of BCEA) and Richard Tiu, a visitng lecturer from the Philippines. Judith returns to her home and these two men drive me to the college. My apartment is in a house that is shared by the Yoon family, who live downstairs and Richard, who is my neighbour upstairs. There is a nice little kitchen as I enter. The living room has a table with bottled water and there are nine orange roses in a vase on the coffee table. There is a little study in the hallway leading to the bedroom in the back. There are two single beds with mosquito nets over each of them. I have a very nice view of the campus from my window.

I am told that I should be at the Kim’s at 8:30 the next morning for breakfast.