Safari/Malindi

Hello everyone!

Sorry for the late post! We have been busy working and doing great things :)

Safari: We went on safari last week to the Massai Mara Sarova Game Camp. It was so incredible! We left very early Wednesday morning and embarked on the 6 hour drive to the Mara. Before we even arrived we saw zebras, monkeys, and so many things! We got there around 2pm and had a short break before our 4pm 'game drive'. We were all very excited for the hot showers awaiting us! On our first game drive we saw many things...we saw elephants and birds and buffalo and other smaller animals. We saw some Ostrich too! After we got back from the game drive we ate dinner. The food there is so amazing and we all ate sooo much and were very blessed to have eaten that food. We ate so much for the 2 and 1/2 days!

The next day we woke up for a 6:30am game drive! It was so early because the beds were so comfortable but it was very fun to get up and see all of Gods creation and glory! It was so beautiful and we all had a wonderful time. We got to stand up in our safari vans and see for miles. We came across some more elephants and also 4 lions! Later we came across more lions and they were being chased away by a herd of around 200 Cape Buffalo! It was so reversed to see the lions being chased away instead of attacking!

When we got back from the drive we had all day to relax. It was very nice to relax and I personally took a nap haha! Around lunch time we were all back together and ate and then played some games after and the ladies laid at the pool and caught some sun. Then it was time for another game drive. This one was very fun as well and we were in search of a leopard but we never found one on this drive. We sawe some giraffes and also some other things I forgot the name of! After we ate dinner and then the night came.

Morning came quickly at 6:30 again and we had to be packed and ready to go because after we were leaving straight back to Nairobi! This game drive, we saw something I had never seen before! Although we drove for 2 hours and found nothing, we finally found a cheetah! It was very beautiful and amazing to see. We saw it for only a short amount of time and then it ran away (very fast!).

Malindi: After our safari adventure we went back to Nairobi to catch a night bus to Malindi, Kenya (the coast). We spent the afternoon at Java House waiting on night to come. We got on the bus and it was good. We all slept and a funny thing is we all talked and felt like whenever we woke up, everyone else was asleep, but everyone said they woke up a lot! What are the odds?! We made it to Malindi around 7 in the morning and rode in tuk-tuks to the hotel and checked in. We had the whole day to ourselves and we went to the beach and hung out and also relaxed a lot! It was very nice. I know it sounds like a lot of relaxing, but the group worked very hard at MITS and has also been working very very hard doing manual labor since Monday at Mahenzo Christian School here in Malindi.

There will be more to come shortly about what we have been doing in Malindi, but for now we will leave you with this; lots of hard working Aggies! It has been very fun to work hard and see what we can do as a group.

Another thing: we were able to bring two MITS kids with us to Malindi. They are two of the older boys from MITS and are very very excited to be here. They are very respectful and nice, hard working young men and we are so extremely blessed and happy to have them here with us! Ken Owino (18) and Ambush Goyo (17) are the two with us.

Thanks!
Jeremy