Jambo aus Nairobi!
Hier kommt unser erster Lagebericht nach nur knapp 55 Stunden, doch es kommt uns vor wie Wochen. Die ersten Eindrücke waren überwältigend:
Aufregend war bereits die Zugfahrt der Augsburger zum Frankfurter Flughafen, da sie sich an die Anweisungen des Reisebüros hielten und ihr Rail- and Flyticket auch als Zugticket benutzen wollten. Schlussendlich entpuppten sie sich als Schwarzfahrer – Senk ju for träwelling wif deutsche Bahn.
Um 20 Uhr trafen alle Keniareisenden schließlich am Terminal 2 in Frankfurt ein. Jeder schleppte riesige, unheimlich schwere Rucksäcke an – größer war nur unsere Vorfreude auf das dreiwöchige Keniaabenteuer.
Nach unserem arabisch-angehauchten Flug mit Etihad-Airlines (Mekkah war stets richtungsweisend) und bayerischem Käse beim 4 Uhr-Frühstück (hergestellt von der Firma Hoffman, in der Julia arbeitet), kamen wir schließlich um 6 Uhr Ortszeit im 35°C-heißen Abu Dhabi an. Dort saßen wir seelenruhig am falschen Gate und mussten persönlich für unseren Flug ausgerufen werden: „Last call for passengers KLJB Mainz and Augsburg!“, den wir gerade noch so, 20 Minuten vor dem Take-off, erreichten.
In Nairobi angekommen, wurden wir von unserem etwas in die Jahre gekommenen Special-School-Party-Bus abgeholt und sehr freundlich empfangen. Dank der kenianischen Straßenverhältnisse und der Ablage unseres Gepäcks auf der Rückbank des Busses, flog dieses während der Fahrt in unsere Unterkunft kreuz und quer hin und her.
Bis zu unserer morgigen Weiterfahrt nach Eldoret, wohnen wir in einem Karmeliter-Kloster in sehr angenehmen Verhältnissen. Bis auf das Frühstück (Schokopudding entpuppte sich als Weizenmehlpampe) gefällt es uns hier sehr gut.
Nachdem wir den ganzen Tag im „Resurrection-Garden“ (Kreuzweg in einem Garten) und „Bomas“ (Freilichtmuseum mit kenianischen Unterkünften und traditionellen Tänzen) unterwegs waren, stellte sich die Weiterfahrt mit unserem Bus als etwas problematisch heraus: Wegen dem laufenden Radio unseres Fahrers, während unserer Abwesenheit, sprang der Bus nicht mehr an. Doch dieses kleine Problem wurde auf kenianisch-pragmatische Art mit Coca-Cola auf der Batterie gelöst. Das Leben kann so einfach sein….
By the way: Die kenianische Sonne lässt sich bei uns (weder im Norden, Süden, Westen oder Osten, wie bereits erörtert wurde) nur selten blicken, deshalb packen wir uns jeden Tag bei ca. 18°C mit unseren dicksten Klamotten ein. Bald wird es Zeit zu waschen!
Partnership letter July 2012 from Mainz
Dear all,
We hope every one of you is fine and is as excited of the exchange next week as we are. Here in Germany we are getting prepared for the trip in case of packing our luggage and buying a few useful things like a mosquito net.
In July we had a meeting in Mainz where we were working at a project called “Fair-Nasch-Mich”. We want to collect all the stores and restaurants that sell or work with fairtrade products in Mainz and the surrounding area, so we get a big list where everyone can look where they can get fairtrade products. When we finished that list, we want to publish it in three ways: The first way is on the website www.fairnaschmich.de, where everyone is able to have a look on all the time. The second way is going to be a small booklet, which will be handed out at KLJB events. The third way to publish that list is to create an Application for a Smartphone, where it should be possible to create a map, where all the stores and restaurants are involved, so you can see, how far it is to the next store/restaurant.
When we’re back from Kenya we’ll continue working on that project!
We hope you’ll have a nice weekend, at the next weekend we are going to arrive! ;-)
See you in a few days :D
KLJB Mainz
We hope every one of you is fine and is as excited of the exchange next week as we are. Here in Germany we are getting prepared for the trip in case of packing our luggage and buying a few useful things like a mosquito net.
In July we had a meeting in Mainz where we were working at a project called “Fair-Nasch-Mich”. We want to collect all the stores and restaurants that sell or work with fairtrade products in Mainz and the surrounding area, so we get a big list where everyone can look where they can get fairtrade products. When we finished that list, we want to publish it in three ways: The first way is on the website www.fairnaschmich.de, where everyone is able to have a look on all the time. The second way is going to be a small booklet, which will be handed out at KLJB events. The third way to publish that list is to create an Application for a Smartphone, where it should be possible to create a map, where all the stores and restaurants are involved, so you can see, how far it is to the next store/restaurant.
When we’re back from Kenya we’ll continue working on that project!
We hope you’ll have a nice weekend, at the next weekend we are going to arrive! ;-)
See you in a few days :D
KLJB Mainz
preparation for our trip to kenya
hello to all friends of the CARYM-KLJB partnership,
at the moment we are looking forward to our second preparation meeting in a small youth-house in Oberotterbach.
There we will learn a lot about intercultural aspects. Also the visa and financial proceeding is on of our topics.
Short time ago we got news from the preparation in Kenya.
Hopefully the CARYM office will soon come back to us with more details about the programm of our exchange and especially the workcamp.
I wish you all a successful preartion of our exchange and more details will be blogged after the 03rd of June.
God bless and best regards
KLJB Mainz & Augsburg
at the moment we are looking forward to our second preparation meeting in a small youth-house in Oberotterbach.
There we will learn a lot about intercultural aspects. Also the visa and financial proceeding is on of our topics.
Short time ago we got news from the preparation in Kenya.
Hopefully the CARYM office will soon come back to us with more details about the programm of our exchange and especially the workcamp.
I wish you all a successful preartion of our exchange and more details will be blogged after the 03rd of June.
God bless and best regards
KLJB Mainz & Augsburg
At the weekend of 25th to 27th November 2011 we met the first time to prepare the trip to Kenya in 2012. We met in the “Canisius-Haus” in Dinkelscherben, which is close to Augsburg. The main topic of the Weekend was to find three small teams. The topic of the first team is finance, the second team thinks about entertainment and the last team is there for the publicity and documentary. The teams always have to have an eye on their topic, not just in the preparation here in Germany, also during the exchange in Kenya. Also important at this weekend were some presentations about the culture of Kenya, so every participant knows something about the different culture. We all think, that we have got a good team with nice people and everybody is very excited to come to Kenya.
Partnership Letter
Partnership letter KLJB Augsburg to CARYM Eldoret
6th of October 2011
Dear CARYM Members,
we want to inform you about what´s going on in Germany. First of all we hope you are fine and blessed with health. We were very sad hearing that Father Emmanuel is leaving the CARYM. We want to say thank you and wish him success with his new challenge to serve as chaplain in the Kenyan Army. At the same time we are looking forward to work together with Father Cleophas Kipkorir and send him a warm welcome to our partnership-group.
Our post proceeding weekend in Zornheim/Mainz from 08th -10th of September was very successful. We wrote an article for the partnership homepage as well as for the KLJB newspaper consisting of a short overview over the three weeks in Germany.
We also arranged a power-point presentation with pictures to give impressions of our exchange to other KLJB members. Moreover we wrote a thank-you letter for all people demanding money that made the exchange possible. The weekend was also a good time for us to talk about the things we experienced in August.
Until now we have started to prepare the visit in Kenya in August 2012. The organization team in Germany consists of Lisa and Eve for Mainz and Kaspar and Franzi for Augsburg. In November we are going to meet at a youth house near Augsburg where all the participants of our journey take part and get first information about that exchange.
During that weekend we´ll hear some presentations about life and people in Kenya, it´s climate, economy & geography. Instructions about how to prepare for the journey and getting to know each other are main topics too. In a few days we´ll send the announcement of the exchange to all KLJB groups in Mainz and Augsburg.
This weekend (7th – 9th of October) is the diocesan meeting of Augsburg where we represent the AKI and it´s topics like food sovereignty, fair clothes and of course the partnership with Mainz and Eldoret. We want to motivate KLJB members to come to Kenya with us. Furthermore we (Inteam Mainz & AKI Augsburg) created a new flyer with information about the actions in our workgroups. So, we want to motivate young people to join the Inteam/AKI. At the moment Manfred and Felix are reworking our partnership homepage to make it more attractive for the interested people.
We in Germany are all back in our daily business like school, university or job. In general everybody is fine and we´re looking forward to meeting each other in November in Augsburg. We are also excited to get some more news from Eldoret especially concerning the council in October :)
God bless & best wishes from Germany
AKI Augsburg & Inteam Mainz
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