Day 284 - Visit Upcountry to see Eunice's Family

Before we left Kenya, Eunice had one more visit that we had to make. She wanted us to go upcountry and visit her family, to see her old school, see where she was raised and take us on a "walk for water. Over the years we had known Eunice and had here in our house in London, she had told us tales of her childhood, how they had had to walk for several miles each day just to get eater, how she had been to school in a mud hut and how her parents had survived on a subsistence farm, worked and paid for her to go to her secondary school. She wanted to show us where she came from.

So we set off in a regular saloon car for the 4 hour trip north of Nairobi.  The further we went the worse the roads became. We drove (well scrapped) along several sections that only a 4 x 4 should have been traveling. But Eunice assured us that it was all in a days driving.

I'll never understand how we didn't at least lose the exhaust pipe or damage the sump of the engine but we did all have to get out on the worst sections just to give the car some extra ground clearance.

As we got closer to her family home, we stopped at her old school, where we saw her classroom and the toilet block. 

They had recently built a new classroom, although all the old ones were still very much in use.

After the school visit was over, we came to the nearby village. Eunice knew most of the locals and we were introduced to the local pastor and the local inhabitants. We were later told that some of the children there had never seen a white person before. They thought we were from another planet! The children wanted to play with us and showed us some of their home made toys. We did some tricks and showed them how we could juggle. I don't think any of them had ever seen or tasted biscuits either!

And we arrived at Eunice's Mum and Dad's. We brought gifts of pots and pans.