Thursday, January 13, 2011

no worries, no worries


Hello Everyone

On my very first visit to Kenya our very large plane was beginning its decent when all of a sudden the plane jerked up. Everyone was stunned and quite, after what seemed like a very long time but was really a few minutes the pilot came on and said "No worries, no worries we just have to clear the livestock off of the runway!" Well we certainly did not have to slear any of the live stock off the runway--the landing was smooth. The Jomo Kenyatta Intl Airport has done some renovation and looks very good. Getting our visas went without a hitch and then it was to retreive our baggage. It all went pretty well--all of our bags made it. Now customs--Lauren had made a connection with one of the customs officer so she lead the way. Some of the bags were damaged in flight and he began inspecting them--we quickly handed him a packing slip. We are a pretty large group and he began to address the whole group and then I stepped up and said who I was and that this was a medical mission. At first he would not make eye contact with me and I thought in that moment that I was about to lose this effort and have to try and negotiate a payment plan. "You have medicines?" "No", I replied "I am an eye doctor." "You are eye doctors?" and he immediately waved us through. He must have had a second thought as we were making our way through the doors "Wait, what is in this box?" "Handles for garden tools", I replied. By this time half of the team had met Juli McGowan one of our mission contacts. He looked at me, looked at the packing slip looked out of the door and once again waved myself and the rest of the team through. Yee-haa!! The team smiled and high fived one another as we made our way to the waiting vans to take our supplies to Kipkaren and the other waiting van to take us to Mayfield, which is a very pleasant and beautiful home that has been made into a hostel. It's only 3:30 in the afternoon in Cedar Rapids but it is 11:30PM here and we need to get up at 4am to be at the airport by 5am to catch our 6am flight to Eldoret. So I am going to sign off soon for now-- but all I can say, if I am a cat with nine lives, getting through customs, I am grateful to the "powers that be" that I have a few lives left.

10 Comments:

At 4:17 PM , Blogger Bridgit said...

What a blessing in Customs once again God comes through! Get some sleep!

 
At 7:07 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

no worries all is great here -glad everything is going well.

 
At 7:08 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sorry that was me
Michele Burnes

 
At 7:08 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sorry that was me
Michele Burnes

 
At 8:27 AM , Anonymous Sally Mason said...

Hi DeAnn and Happy New Year!

The work you are doing is truly amazing. Can't wait to hear even more when you get home!

We missed you at the Insight Bowl this year but the Hawkeyes managed a win on their own!

Glad to see that Customs was kind this year!

Sally

 
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