Flight and First day

Hi All,
This is my first post! Woo! Excitement. Do pass the address onto anyone who is interested, I don't know if I'll manage to tell everyone.
So anyway, yesterday I arrived in Nairobi. The flight was about 8 hours long, in which time I managed to fit two meals and three films (Night at the Museum 2, The Proposal & The Day the Earth Stood Still - awful film). I arrived in Nairobi airport and managed to get my Visa and get passed the guy asking my questions about what was in my bag...I had a horrible fear that he was going to ask to go through it and the thought terrified me. Not because I had anything bad in there (I knew I shouldn't have packed the inflatable sheep) but because it was so well packed there was absolutely no way I'd ever get it all back in there. But luckily I escaped and made it through to where I was greeted by lots of people holding up signs until I finally found the one with my name on it. I was greeted by Fabian, the BIEA driver, who drove me to the Institute where I was to stay at the Guest House. I arrived and met the two fellow attachees, Dave and Hannah, and a researcher, Sarah. Hannah and Sarah are anthropologists and Dave is archaeologist, although he did arch & anth at Oxford.
So I was shown around, shown my room (Bedroom 4, although I have to move to share with Hannah by the weekend) and made tea which I drank while we sat and chatted and I got to know people. Then at about 11.30 I realised what the time was and unacked enough for me to be able to go to bed.

Today I woke up at 7.30am. Although technically I was awake off and on all night and more on than off from 5.30. I went next door to the BIEA offices for 8.30 and met Matt, the assistant director. He showed me around and then charged me with the very important task of reading a book. It's called Ismalia by Samual Baker and is supposed to give me background to what we'll be doing when we go to the Sudan on the 26th. It's quite interesting, very lively writing style and more like a story than an account of actual events. Anyway, I didn't actually read very much of it because before long Matt asked if I wanted to go to Westlands (i think it's called) so I did. It's a shopping centre mall thing with shops and restaurants and a cinema. So I got a SIM card. Phone number I will post later. And I had a cup of kenyan coffee, which was quite nice actually. Then after being shown PC World (oh yes) we went back to the offices, where I just about had time to sit down when we realised it was lunchtime. So Dave took me on a Matatu (a bus, but scarier, even than london buses) no.48 which took us into town for 30shillings. We went and had lunch in a coffee place and then I was shown around town, which is just very busy and bustly and I know if I went there on my own it would be very very easy to get lost. So then we came back on the matatu and I did some more reading sat in the library. Until it was all of a sudden after 4.30 and time for the long 4 second walk home.

As I needed food I headed over the the little parade of shops down the road to buy my essentials like biscuits, orange juice and overpriced cereal. Then back for a shower, which was quite pleasant, although I had been stood in the bath with the shower on for a full half a minute before I realised there was no shower curtain. One reason to wrap this up swiftly and go to bed... no more sleep deprivation for me please. Then I went online for a bit, came down, chatted to Dave & hannah, went back upstairs to Skype Ryz, came back downstairs again to make dinner, and then I've just been chatting and internetting since.

As I really need some sleep I shall say goodbye now. My updates aren't likely to be incredibly interesting most of the time, although I shall try to take notes when I go to the Sudan so I can easily update when I come back. Sounds interesting, but more on that tomorrow, when hopefully I will also have taken pictures of the institute. For now though, you will have to suffice with some flight photos.

or not as I can't get it to work. This is a problem. Phil!!! help!!!

Photos tomorrow.
night all