Dry Tears

Thursday, June 5

I’ve finally made it to Kenya! Just woke up, feelin pretty refreshed. I flew from Atlanta to London Monday night where I met up with the rest of the team and did a little London sightseeing. Then flew to Kenya that night, so the past two nights I have been surviving on about 2 hours each night. Then yesterday got in, and let me just tell you that we’ve been doing a lot of work in Africa, but to actually be there and step out of the plane, I know it sounds cheesy, but it’s like “Hey, I’m in Africa!”

It’s like 7 a.m. right now and the streets are already busy with life (alarm went off this morning at 5). We’re on our way to the church then going off to our work sites. Not really sure what I’m gonna do… I’m suppose to be meeting with the well contractor for the borehole that’s going in at Nekuru Special Needs School (Which was kinda the incentive for me on this trip) It’s actually a bummer, cause I got here and found out that the borehole isn’t going to be dug while I’m here cause all the equipment is like ten days out. So that kinda put a damper on my parade…whatever.

*EXClAIMER

you guys might be like, ‘What the heck is a borehole, I thought you guys were doing wells’. A borehole is a little bit more advanced technology than a well. It goes down like a ton times more deep and hits the water table, so it will be very hard for it to ever run dry. It is also powered by electricity and has a submersible pump down in it that will pump it up (in this case) a big water tower that will also be connected to the school. This will allow them to have running water, and ultimately change their entire lives. So yeah.