Come To Kenya - we've got lions

Ok so i'll admit i haven't actually seen any lions yet (but hopefully will when we go on safari at the end of next week!)
bt its all to do with a song from a dofe expedition which i wasn't on(!) and my trip to the forest of dean with team rattling phelgm (nice name huh!!)

i will have to blog about tht trip later - more specifically - when marion has typed up the journal - so tht u can do more laughing and i can do less typing!
also my head is filled with my kenyan adventures!
so yes

the flight to nariobi (i can't spell) was long, uneventful and sleepless (which was a shame as it was an overnight flight...)
i watched lots of films - two of them being
'i think i love my wife' - as boring and predictable as the title suggests
and
'bridge to terebithia' - which will forever bring back memories of mrs adams and was also spectacularly boring

we got delayed at the domestic airport in nairobi so i became very familiar with their plastic seating and slept for an hour or so
then flew in a fairly rickety old plane to Malindi airport
and got picked up my a taxi to drive through to Watamu - where our hotel is.....the drive was half an hour or so along a v.straight and pot-holed road.....it was wierd because it felt surreal due to sleep deprivation - and because it looked exactly like it does on the tv screen (funny that eh!!)

then we arrived at the hotel and i was immediately on a huge guilt trip. this place is 5-star coz the hotel we originally booked is undergoing refurbishment and so the company we booked with is meeting the extra cost :D
this means an AMAZING environment - with a 7km stretch of beach less than a minutes walk away - and the service is fantastic - you get hot towels which are covered in essential oils before each meal - which is one of the nicest things ever! - and people practically falling over themselves to help you out.

this hotel is completely westernised and luxuourious - which is brilliant and wonderful - but when there are people 2minutes walk from you who have nothing it makes it harder to deal with (and so it should methinks!)

i then did the boring thing of unpacking and sleeping and reading - then was afternoon tea (unfortunately no scones!) and finding out our itineary for the rest of the hol.
then more sleeping and eating and sunbathing (tho it gets dark at about half 6 coz we're at the equator - which is kinder scary - since that = winter in britain)
then more sleeping, and, later on, eating.
then bed (with plenty of mosquito repellant and nets protecting me)

Then 2day we ate (any one else seeing a theme??), swam in the pool (sea was a bit choppy due to strong wind - yes i know i'm a wuss!)
sunbathed, read,
ate
and then headed out to the orphanage where we are helping out for the next week and a bit. had a tour round the home and the school which is built in the grounds (their smaller classes total 6o-70 kids to one teacher and their largest is over 100 - this means their smallest class would be like having the entire swps sixth form in one room having the same lesson done by the same teacher -- personally i would love to see Jordan or Powell attempt that one!)
Met a few of the children (and tried and failed to learn names)
Had one v.cute 3/4 year old (who was about the size of a 2-year old) called Samwell (or Samuel - cant work out which one is correct!) cling to me which was very nice (until it got annoying! lol!)
Helped make chippatti's for their evening meal which was rele fun
Then chatted to an australian volunteer who's been there for a couple of weeks found out that she spent six years in art school/uni doing fine art and is also a qualified nurse and has been travelling for the last two and a half years and has no thoughts of settling down anywhere anytime soon - which is cool but i don't think i would ever be the type of person who could do that!!
Then back to the hotel - been thinking lots of deep thoughts about life and all that - but i shan't bore you with my partially formed new ideas - maybe another day

Its pitch black outside (i'm two hours ahead of you guys) andi have to dash coz its taken me quite awhile to type this (this is definitely not one of the easiest keyboards i've ever used......and dinner is in 30mins and need to smarten up - also have ALOT of face-booking still left to do (70 emails - crikey!)

the meals here are so incredibly lovely that the smaller portions diet that i was going to put myself on after eating constantly in wales is gonna have to wait until i get home as i can't possibly not eat this food - lol!

hope its not still raining in England :P
till the nxt time!