well the change has begun.
spent a lot of today fiddling with my new theme and its not finished yet but due to some editing restrictions and glitches in the new wordpress work has grinded to a halt for now.
Bit of a work in progress this one. It will be finished oneday.
This is my new blog site.
Update
I have moved to a new hosting company, smartyhost is now gone! Wahoooo.
there are still a few glitches to work out like the pages arnt showing (banners, podcasts etc) and not all my images are back but the images are coming.
the new wordpress seems nice.
hopefully in the next few days everything should be back to normal.
hello people of the world
my blog is moving to a new server so if you dont see me for a few days its becasue i have fallen down a deep hole and david is rescuing me. And david isnt the best rescuer seeing as he only has one arm at the moment.
this is where I have been
How about you?
I added more kenya photos to flickr
i cant be bothered linking so just click on the flickr thing over there —->
anyone want to watch a movie tonight?
just woke up from a 14 hour sleep.
wahooooooooo
tis good to be home even though i’ve only been home for less than 2 minutes
just started feeling quite sick, went to visit the lovely dubai airport toilets.
world war 3 was over not long after it started.
lovely.
I was fine the whole time in Kenya, i start coming home and then it all comes undone.
still feeling pretty seedy.
On the upside i found free wifi
we just landed in the dubai
was a flight of crap sleep.
toms leaving on his flight to londond soon then i have a couple of hours to kill until my 14hr flight home.
we are in nairobi airport after spending almost 10 hours travelling 400kn over the worlds worst roads.
2 planes to go
pressing the ‘demo’ button on a keyboard is great backing music for a sermon
hotel rooms in kenya have horrible acoustics, you can hear the ‘plop’ of bathroom users from your bed
when construcing a staircase it is not important to make all steps an equal size
NO WE ARE STILL NOT AMERICANS
Roundabouts encourage traffic jams
kenyans are extrememly friendly
When an descision is needed to be made it is important to stand around for a few hours before actually making that descision
never feel like it is too late to ask a white man for money
if you have asthma dont go into a small mud hut if it has smoke coming out of the door, its like sitting inside a giant bong
hot chips are the unofficial dish of kenya
when preaching in kenya if people wave at you, then you are doing well. If they stand up and walk out maybe not so well
when using a shower it it is important to flood the bathroom as much as possible
if you are friendly to passport control officers they may invite themselves to your birthday party
when leaving kenya leave your suit behind so you never have to wear it again
if a kenyan worship song begins to play in a church or on the radio you have enough time to go back home and have a sleep, eat a meal, go for a walk and have another nap before the song will finish
when ordering chicken stew be sure to remove the feathers before consuming
when you order coke make sure you order ‘baridi’ otherwise you will get room temp coke
when you go through passport control at nairobi airport you find yourself transported to a giant waiting lounge of loud americans, with kenyans only present as cleaners and airport staff
the kenyan countryside is a beautiful thing
be creative when naming your business, for example ‘Rich people also cry butchery’
Your personality type is ISTP. Introverted (I) 57% Extraverted (E) 43% Sensing (S) 64% Intuitive (N) 36% Thinking (T) 60% Feeling (F) 40% Perceiving (P) 91% Judging (J) 9%
we are about to leave kitale and travel to nairobi. It should take around 8 - 9 hours.
then at 11:30 pm tonight we fly out to dubia.
should be around 36 hours from when we leave kitale until i arrive in sydney
rain = no power = generators
you can call me ‘the new james clarke’
at the moment the internet cafe we are at has no spare desks for me to put my laptop on so they have given me a chair and a desk outside on the verandah. all that is on this verandah is 1 chair, 1 desk and me and my laptop.
It just started pelting down with rain so i had to run back inside, lappy got a bit wet but he is ok.
yesterday tom and i got the night off which was fantastic! the revival meeting was cancleed because of rain.
this morning we visited a small school that is all just orphans, its a project of a few of the local churches. We played some games with the kiddies which was fun. it seems that older people especially people in powerful positions like pastors just ignore kids and push them away when they are standing too close. Infact when we arrived at the school all the pastors went and sat under a tree and didnt come near the kids excpet for the man translating for me and tom. we had fun playing games and making them laugh.
Its a very tribal culture here, the pastors are the chiefs and all important they get special seats and sodas and get to eat first. Its a bit hard to deal with sometimes cause tom and i are being treated the same way. tom and i asked today if we could hand out the food and rink to the kids at lunch time and the pastor said no. we where just supposed to sit in opur comfy chairs and watch. But in the ned we just sort of did start serving which was probably insultiung their culture by its hard sometines not to be a servant.
if this rain keeps up we may have tonight off too.
kenyan roads have 5 pot holes for each resident there are 30 million residents in kenya
you can explode from the amount of soda drunk
white man = give us money
eating cold chicken cooked many hours ago is fine
cloudy water with floating bits is not recommended for drinking
tooth pics are the national cigarette
most people drink coke at room temp not cold
bribary is an option
time is non existant
never listen when someone says ‘we will leave at 8am” you will probably end up leaving at midday
fresh orange juice is cordial
NO WE ARE NOT AMERICAN
being single is a demon that needs to be cast out
kenyan hospitality is second to none
wearing suits sucks bad
apparently is its fine to wee on toilet seats
the number of seats in a car does not determine the amount of people that can fit in that car
you may find yourself getting in trouble if you take too long to eat
kenyan humour is quite similar to ours
there is better mobile phone reception here than in australia
if you are a pastor or eldor its ok to play with your camera, phone or papers during a sermon if someone else is giving it.
the shower head is normally conventionally positioned above the toilet
the road is yours, drive on it where ever you like in whatever way you like
a corn cob makes a good petrol cap
