The flight was just an hour from Entebbe to Nairobi. The VISA line was long in Nairobi but otherwise the travel was very quick and painless. I even found the driver without any problems!!! Traffic getting out of the airport was bad and in Nairobi. The driver was very good to tell me about the different areas we traveled through. Kijabe is a little village of maybe 5,000 people. It’s pretty chilly here but it’s absolutely beautiful. The view of the mountains all around is amazing.
There is a large camp of internally displaced people living in a valley we can see from a distance. They have been there since 2008.
There is a missionary school here and about 2/3 of the students are boarded while their parents are missionaries in other parts of Africa. Megan and I went there to the library for story time with one of their kids and drove around campus.
Kijabe Hospital, where Rhett works, is a mission hospital. People from all over East Africa come here for surgery and treatment. Doctors come in from all over the world to treat patients, sometimes for a week, sometimes for 25 years!
Megan gave me a tour of the hospital today and tomorrow I will make visits with the pediatric chaplain in the morning. I met the chaplain today and she seems really sweet so it should be a fun morning. Megan said that she made visits last week and the Somali parents make loud noises to try to drown out your prayers when you pray with other patients in the room so this should be very interesting. There is a pediatric ward and an ABC ward for children born with physical deformations. We will probably make rounds at both wards.
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