Day 2: Nairobi (Dan)

Doha Airport, Qatar is fun. It feels like a major British airport, yet you can see houses built from sand and slums outside the windows. Half of us had just fallen asleep when Day 2 started with me, Joe, Louise and Andrew taking a 6am trip down to the cafeteria for a weirdly spicy breakfast. Afterwards we regrouped and set off for Kenya. The plan was to fly down to Nairobi, spend the night in a local Salesian house, and then take the bumpy six hour coach to Tanzania.

With no TV the flight was dull, except before we took off noxious-looking gas started to flow in through cracks in the ceiling. Qatarian air con? In Nairobi, we had a bus trip down to the Salesian house. Nairobi is a good city, so it felt like a tour! The weather was hot but not searing. Cars blare horns a lot more, which isn’t bad because you can do a lot of communicating that way. They speak Swahili in Kenya as well as Tanzania, but all the advertisements (often huge billboards) are in English. I want to go back sometime.

The Salesian place was a “Kenyan Savio House”, said Andrew. We stayed up through the night playing Mafia, a crazy game where some people are randomly selected to be the bad guys and the rest of us have to figure out who they are. By the night, a couple of us had only slept an hour since setting off on Friday, so we knocked off to bed.

-Dan