8. August 24, 1967
Dear Mom and Dad, Yesterday afternoon we finally arrived at our house on the compound of St. Mark's College near Embu. We had been spending the days between Friday and Tuesday in a hotel in Nairobi while all the details were settled and a couple of meetings for the men were held. The plane ride was not too bad, but very long. First thing, we had to wait two hours for the plane to have a periodic check that was due. Then as the plane backed out of its parking space we could see our white box (the one dad made for me) sitting on the loading pier. It had our air freight in it with everything to survive with until the sea freight arrived! However it came in on a plane Sunday morning so we have it now. When we finally got to Nairobi the Ministry of Education took us by bus to a hotel in Nairobi where we fell into bed and most of us "flew" the rest of the night and didn't awaken until four of so the next afternoon. We got to Nairobi about 1 am. The hotel was...