After a year of preparing for this moment, I am finally in Africa! I am at Tenwek Hospital in Bomet, Kenya along with my classmate, Emily Gibson, and her husband, Mark, completing two clinical rotation for my physician assistant program. Emily and I will be here for 8 weeks while Mark, who is a physical therapist, will be here for 4 weeks. Tenwek Hospital is a Christian-based missions hospital that operates under the motto "We treat, Jesus heals". We are all looking forward to the experiences we are going to have here and see how God uses us and teaches us through everything we see and do. I titled my blog "A Leap of Faith" because this is definitely the biggest leap of faith I have ever taken, but I feel confident that God led me to this place for a reason and with faith I have no fear of what's to come while we are here.
Our trip to Kenya was definitely longer than we expected. We started by flying out of Cincinnati at 3 pm Saturday to Detroit, spent a couple hours at the Detroit airport, and then flew to Amsterdam. This is where things started going different than planned. We were suppose to fly out of Amsterdam straight to Nairobi and arrive at 8 pm local time. Unfortunately, there was some mechanical difficulties with our plane at Amsterdam and they had to downsize to a different plane. So around half of the passengers stayed on that flight and the other half of us got put on a different plane to London. We were suppose to fly out of London at 4 and arrive at Nairobi at 2 am, but we got delayed even longer and didn't land in Nairobi until 4 am. We waited to get our Visas and luggage and went to meet our driver.....but he wasn't there. So we found a transportation service that could drive us to the Mennonite house we were suppose to be staying at for the night and arrived there at 6 am. We got an hour and a half of rest before having to get up at 7:30 for breakfast and a quick clean-up and then we headed on our way to the hospital. It was a 4 hour drive on a paved highway with lots of bumps/potholes and crazy drivers, but BEAUTIFUL scenery. We were very happy to finally make it to our final destination, but extremely exhausted. After a brief orientation, we all napped for a bit and now it's 10 pm and we are looking forward to a full night's sleep hopefully.
I hope to post on here as often as possible about our daily activities and what all we are learning, but with a jammed internet provider it may be difficult at times. Pictures to come later of what we have seen so far, but for now it's off to get ready for our first day in the hospital. God Bless and good night!
Kelly
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