7. August 23, 1967 In Africa
August 23, 1967 Dear Jim, Patsy, Becky, Shirley, and Jimmy, Greetings form Africa! We were delayed two hours taking off last Wednesday and arrived here in Nairobi at 2 am Nairobi time. I don't know what time New York time, we were all too weary to care. The Ministry of Education gave us a nice welcome, took pictures, hurried us through customs and loaded us into a bus to travel the ten miles from the airport to the city. Then got us rooms in a hotel and by 3 am we were all in bed asleep, all ten families. The other families had been taken to Uganda and Tanzania on the way to Nairobi. We were the last group. The help in the hotel was greatly disturbed because most of us slept clear through until supper time, and they couldn't carry on the usual routine of making beds and so forth. We have two rooms across the hall from each other. Milt and Frank and I in one, the girls in the other. Ours has a bathroom, theirs a sink. Everything is very old and...