Jambo rafikis (hello friends for the uninitiated!)

Right lets start by giving you all the headline gossip (news)

Rhys took his second Malarone tablet today and appears to be suffering no side effects...Yay!

Alfie was very peaceful on the plane and even managed to sit with staff for over an hour and read a book (ask questions about the book!)

Billy is here after trying very hard to lose his boarding pass

Alex bought a new T shirt and held it in his possession for the whole flight....before leaving it behind!

Sam has managed to transport 3 tonnes of beauty products and arrange them successfuly in the bathroom

Mike, Ed, Patrick only managed to annoy Miss Riggs twice today by being extremely late

Day one and we have a picture of Josh Smith sleeping at the school....several pictures!

Karen has now got curly hair!

Now that you are all brought up to date I thought I would begin by saying how surreal it feels to be back in Kenya, in many ways it feels like we have never left. Yesterday flew by and after thinking that 7 hours in school seemed like plenty of time to get things sorted, suddenly we were sitting on the minibus heading for Gatwick. Most of Gatwick went really smoothly until it came time to board the plane. We all waited patiently for our call and when the voice came over the tannoy Billy discovered he had lost his boarding pass. After nearly 10 minutes of frantic searching and arguments with Monarch staff the offending pass was found....up his sleeve 

Long old plane journey....lots of noise.....little sleep....bit of turbulence....aeroplane food......Alfie etc and we landed to heavy rain. It was after getting off the plane Alex discovered that he had 'misplaced' (forgotten) his brand new t-shirt. We boarded the plane again, but alas the t-shirt had grown legs and walked.

Turns out it can rain really really hard, but still be el-scorchio here in Kenya, apparently it has rained for A. 10 days, B. 7 days or C. 3 days, depending on which Kenyan you talk to about it. Needless to say it is very green and the school is flooded.

Hotel is great and the staff were really excited to see us all again, lots of hugs  They had our rooms ready in under an hour, so time for a quick shower and then off to the school. I am sure the Kenya 15 have blogged all about their experiences, but i was absolutely amazed at how quickly they settled in. My highlight for the day has to go to James Toogood who was teaching lots of little Kindergarten kids rugby, it was really really cute to see, closely followed by Billy Hancock running around playing football, high-fiving and taking on goal keeping duties during lunch.

Anyway, I am sure the kenya 15 have not mentioned how tired we all are! So thats all from me and Karen today, look forward to seeing all your comments, they were all very excited to read your comments already so please do keep it up.

Lots of Love

Kwaheri rafikis (goodbye friends)

Ian and Karen