Arrival

Heather and Kenneth met me at the Kajo Keji airstrip (above), unloaded my bag’s at Kaya’s place and then we had a short meeting at the Seed Effect office before I crashed and got some sleep Thursday night. On Friday the team had a welcome lunch party for me at Stephen's. It was great to see everyone again. After the party we had a very productive kickoff meeting and we are planning to prep next week to do two more loan groups the week after, totaling 30 new clients.

Today was great except for the part where I broke the door to building I live in, shattered the window, and had on no pants at the time. But on a positive note I reassembled my bike, with a little help from the Kaya kids and the watchman. So now have transport (all 3 e3 vehicles are out of commission right now). And tonight we had a great surprise birthday party for Kelly, an American who works at the orphanage. We tricked her by taking her by the local saloon (tongue-in-cheek) to buy a soda. Very interesting entertainment was featured.

The barkeep was playing a tape of one of the McCain-Obama presidential debates from 2008. As thrilling as that was to watch, again, we left and eventually stumbled upon the real party at Stephen’s. Lots of fun, lots of food. So we do actually have at least 6 other Americans in town for now, though only Heather and Christy are with e3 [R to L, Christy, Stephen, Cole, Emily (just visiting) and back of Heather's head].