The flight

it took me over 30hours to get here...considering all the connections i am surprised i didn't miss one. the flight was fine except 2 what i consider major things...
1st the flight from amsterdam to narobi is 9 hours....i have already been on a plane for around 13 hours so i am a bit tired.
I have it planned that i will sleep on this leg of the trip...well, i was so wrong.
i had the end seat and the middle guy was so large that he could not put down the arm rests. i realize we all have out issues....but i paid good money for an entire seat! why is he almost 3 seats if he only paid for one? The guy was really nice and all but come on! 9 hours of this...can you please move your shoulder, can you please move your arm, please move your leg (i couldn't get my tray all the way down because his legs were so big and interfered with my tray! i was incredibly patient with it but i will be writing a letter to klm.
get as mad as you want but it should be a LAW that if you can't fit into the seat buy a 2nd seat!!!!

then i finally get into kigali after a delayed flight nairobi...and da da daaaaahhhhhh
customs isn't going to let me in with my donations....WWWWHHAAAATTTTT??? really it is 230 am kigali time and you aren't going to let me through.
apparantly i need invoices for all the items -- didn't have any. so after awile came up with if i could find the receipt in my email would they use that? Yes...but i could not find the email.....Ugghhhh, so sat around talking to the 3 customs guys for awhile about michael jackson because one was surfing the net reading about michael jackson...really having no idea what i could do...and then it happened! HOw about use my blog to prove to them I am not going to sell the items. GENIUS!!! by that time i had been proposed to twice so i was really thinking i had a good chance on getting the officer to let the items pass...he printed the entire blog and said ok i will let you pass.

AAAhhhhh it felt great to be here...had some tea with my mind just went blank...i have forgotten everyone's name...ummmmm, anyway had tea unpacked heard a dog bark, didn't see a single mosquito, took a bit of a shower but the water was so cold i only got to one arm and wetting down my hair. slept for a bout 3-4 hours and got up to with justus, program director, to pick up one of the other volunteers....so i need a good night rest tonight

my room is lovely and i am feeling very well and happy here in rwanda......tomorrow i will write about what we did today but for now i need to go and eat and then off to bed for some real sleep