A Good Start!

A few minor disappointments have been outweighed by a pretty good day.

The disappointments:
*My email on this computer is not working, so I couldn't send a note home to tell Sean I found the suprises he hid in my suitcase... (but I could phone, so that wasn't a big deal.)
*There was a typo in our information and 6 PM is not when we leave Zurich on Saturday, but when we arrive in Nairobi - so our stopover there is brief. Oh, well. That was just a suprise bonus anyway.
*The toothbrush in the travel pack I bought sucks. (Here's me rolling my eyes and laughing!)

We met the last of the team this morning and have been getting to know each other all day - we had a chance to share about ourselves this morning, but then in between orientation sessions and over meals there's been lots of talk, and what a bunch of great people. We're all very different, and while we've been warned that a couple weeks in we might be sick of being with the same people all the time, (and who wouldn't!) I'm sure that we are going to have a good time together.

There are two guys and six girls. One girl is German, and one is Bolivian. Four of us have travelled lots and four haven't been off the continent (a couple not even out of Canada.) Both the guys and three of the girls are married, and one of the guys has three kids (ages 7, 9 and 11 - imagine them all hanging off his legs telling him not to go...) Two are 23, three are later 20's and three of us are 35. Most are just students, but one is a full time pastor as well as a student. Their names are Claudia, Leona, Candice, Heather, Kristie, Mike and Craig.

In orientation today we learned about CBM, about the Sharing Way and their work in Kenya, and about the expectations for the class side of things, among other things. Tomorrow we learn more about Kenyan culture and cross cultural communication before we head to the airport. There's a lot of great people that work out here, and it's been enlightening to get a sense of what CBM is all about from the HQ and the people who are hands on involved in these great things.

I think my favorite part of the day might have been after lunch when we took a bit of a hike through an amazing wooded path just minutes down the road from the office. Very cool.

Don't know when I'll write more, but good bye till then!
Thanks for reading.

PS - they have chapel here on Thursday mornings with all the staff, and they did a pretty cool comissioning for us.