traveling home

This morning we leave for the SFS camp outside of Nairobi. We'll stay there tonight and head to the airport tomorrow morning. Many of us are on a group flight from Nairobi to London to Newark, but about a dozen others are staying in Kenya or Tanzania for a while. A bunch are hiking Kilimanjaro (wooh!) and others are spending some time on the Kenyan coast. Here is my travel itinerary, I will spend a day in NYC with my aunt before flying to Maine. That will be really exciting, but also an overwhelming way to transition from Africa to America! I'm trying to get ready for the reverse culture shock that I'm sure will hit us all as soon as we see so many clean white people in London. It'll be hard to adjust to life back in the US after living in Africa for so long, where we have such opposite lifestyles as most Americans (think washing your hair once a week, never doing homework in doors, ushering bats out of your banda, wearing the same shirt for a week straight, seeing Kili everyday!). I'm excited for many things back in the US (seeing family and friends, eating foods, snow, clean clothes, no bugs!), so that will help me cope with how much I'll miss life here. So, hope to see you all soon!

12 DEC 10  -  SUNDAY

    AIR   VIRGIN ATLANTIC      FLT:672    ECONOMY        MULTI MEALS

          LV NAIROBI  KENYATTA            1240P          EQP: AIRBUS A340-300

                                                         09HR 25MIN

          AR LONDON HEATHROW              705P           NON-STOP

          ARRIVE: TERMINAL 3                             REF: FF04ZJ

          JOHNSTON/CATHER   SEAT-59A

    AIR   VIRGIN ATLANTIC      FLT:17     ECONOMY        MULTI MEALS

          LV LONDON HEATHROW              810P           EQP: AIRBUS A340-300

          DEPART: TERMINAL 3                             08HR 15MIN

          AR NEWARK                       1125P          NON-STOP

          ARRIVE: TERMINAL B                             REF: FF04ZJ

          JOHNSTON/CATHER   SEAT-57A

 14 DEC 10  -  TUESDAY

    AIR   CONTINENTAL AIRLINES FLT:3431   ECONOMY CLASS

          OPERATED BY /COLGAN AIR DBA CONTINENTAL CONNECTION

          LV NEWARK                       1030A          EQP: DH4

          DEPART: TERMINAL C                             01HR 59MIN

          AR PORTLAND      ME             1229P          NON-STOP

                                                         REF: CWC3Q5

          JOHNSTON/CATHER   SEAT-6A