Msafara countdown: 10 days to go!

So with only 10 days to go until Msafara kicks off with an overnight bus trip to Mombasa, life is getting crazier. The media department is running around like chickens with their heads cut off. We have so much work: creating ADS for TV, Radio, and Newspapers. Writing stories to get published in the newspapers to help generate positive media about what the church is actually doing. Working on T-shirts, banners, brochures, flyers, booklets and anything else that will help promote Msafara.

My current job is writing, writing, writing. I've written about 7 stories in the past week and I've got a couple more to write tomorrow. I really need to do some editing too. I wish we had a few more people working on this writing project but everyone is spread too thin as it is. I also end up being the liaison between my dad and many other people, especially the Media department. But that is an easy job.

I'm enjoying the people I work with. Especially Roselynn, Sam, John, Gedion and Daniel (who are all interns/pastoral trainees at Nairobi Chapel and are all working extremely hard!). It's been nice to actually get to be around people besides my parents! I'm the youngest in the office but they have all made me feel right at home – actually today I kind of felt like I had a bunch of older siblings as they tried their hands at advice about guys, match-making and all sorts of other fun things.

Yesterday I went to a Gospel concert. I was actually supposed to simply attend – you know enjoy myself with a seat to sit in if I wanted to. But that was not how it happened. The guy who took me (I'm still not comfortable using public transport all by myself) first of all possibly got the wrong impression about my intentions (that was part of today's guy advice session :) and secondly managed to get us jobs as volunteers. So instead of dancing to my heart's content or sitting down when I felt like it, I ended up guarding a door with some other random guy I had never met. So there I was all the way at the back of the church, standing for hours, telling people that this particular door was not an entrance or exit and that they would have use one of the actual entrances/exits. Then we left before the best part of the concert (or so I was told today). Needless to say, I don't think I will ever go any place with that guy again! Oh well, it was kind of fun and I did manage to score a free t-shirt (always a bonus but especially now as I have few weather appropriate shirts – I forgot it was summer when I packed my stuff to come to Nairobi).

Other than all this, I think I really need to go to sleep. Its 10:22 and I have to be up no later than 6 am. Man I don't like mornings!

So my schedule looks like this:

• Write and write for the next week and ½.

• Maybe (and that's a big maybe) attend the Kesha (overnight prayer service) on Friday night

• Fast for 7 days (29^th-6^th)
  

• My BIRTHDAY – one week away on the 3^rd.

• Media Launch (I must attend!) on the 4^th

• Move out of our house on the 5th (the real renters are coming for a couple of weeks and we don't know if we are actually going to be coming back here or looking for a new house)

• Apply to an university here before I leave (possibility for what I'll being doing starting in May)
  

• Msafara starts on the 7^th ( I think I'm going but I still need $300 plus to go)

• Msafara ends on the 17^th

• Life goes back to Normal (whatever that is)
  

So I was going to post some pictures but the uploader is not working. I'll try again another time :(