Long flight home (Friday-Saturday, December 1-2)

Jambo (hello in Swahili) from the Amsterdam airport!

Im writing this during my long layover at this weird airport, which now is beginning to feel very familiar. I am back to the comfortable lounge seats I discovered on my way to Kenya last week and have even managed to take a brief nap in the early hours of the morning before the airport filled up with people. Even though I am tired from flying with minimal sleep all night, I am beginning to slowly process what all I experienced during the last 10 days. To summarize: I loved Kenya and cannot wait to be back! In fact, my long-standing passion for Latin America is beginning to wane in favor of Africa. During the workshop I came in contact with representatives of various countries and regions of the continent, which added to the attraction and mystique of this very diverse part of the world. I am definitely looking forward to Uganda in February (assuming that we can get our collaborators to organize it) and to more trips to Africa in the future.