AFRICA:
Connie just returned from a two week African Adventure. As a member of her church’s, Memorial Drive United Methodist Church, mission team, Connie traveled to Africa to build houses for AIDS Orphans and the staff of a local hospital. Connie was able to keep a journal of her experience and is sharing them with us all. Check out our Blog for Daily Updates.
Day 1
Today 15 of us from Memorial Drive Methodist Church left for Africa on a trip to build housing both for the staff at the Methodist Hospital in Maua, Kenya & in an outlying area for AIDS orphans. We left in the evening and had a 15 + hour trip to Dubai, where we spent the night. Then we are on to Nairobi the next day. (The trip is a little shorter going than returning.)
Arrived safely in Dubai, checked in & finally figured out how to turn the lights on in our rooms. You have to insert the room card into a slot & they come on, but as we found out, they go off if you don’t leave the card in the slot. We ate a quick dinner so we could take a tour of the city from 9:20 till 11:30, which was more like midnight.
So much beautiful new architecture everywhere, including the tallest building in the world, the largest shopping center in the world, another shopping center with snow skiing inside, and a man-made island shaped like a palm tree. The fabulous Atlantis Hotel is on this island and many condos to buy or rent.
We were photographing a large white mosque when a red corvette pulled up and men in their long flowing white garments called kanduras got out to go pray. Afterwards when returning to their car they put back on their baseball caps. Interesting combination.
Extremely hot here—in the 100’s even late at night, and when we walked on the beach and into the Persian Gulf, it was like bath water. Even being from Houston, when we walked out of the airport, it felt like we were walking into an oven.
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