reactions to re-entry

Now that we've been home for a few days, it's starting to feel normal to be here, but we are all missing Africa. We find ourselves going on the Turtle Bay website to hear the sounds of singing in Swahili, (if you go to the Turtle Bay link and then look for videos people have posted, there is one called Chuck the Duck visits Turtle Bay and the music is great!) we have had trouble explaining to people how different life in Kenya was for us and we are rather overwhelmed with all there is to do to catch up here. Grant did a great job keeping the house together, so we didn't have to deal with lawn mowing, cleaning or buying groceries immediately, but now I have a "to do list" again that kind of frightens me! ( I can't figure out how to turn off the underline, sorry!)

Reactions to re-entry

We have to look for toilet handles again-opposite side

The showers are hot, strong and immediate

The beds are soft

The bird sounds are different

Yogurt and cereal taste “normal”

Driving is weird- we'd gone 3 weeks without being behind the wheel

Almost everyone is white and speaks “American English”- we really miss the diversity!

The medicine is stronger, fixing my itchy skin

The internet is FAST

we have independence, we can go where we want, when we want

there is lots of media NOISE

our alert level went way down

we have lots of space

we can be out of each other’s sight for more than a few minutes

lightening bugs

blueberries and strawberries taste delicious

toilet paper is soft