Hi, Friends, I am typing this at 4 PM, Tuesday afternoon, with temps in the high 60s(but quite cold at night time!!) I got here in good shape but very tired. It took a total of 17 hours flying time to get here. 15 of those 17 hours involved two back-to-back flights of 7.5 hours, with a one hour stop in Zurich,Switzerland. I am having to sleep a lot just to make it through a day. Altitude adjustment??(It is 6000 feet above sea level here.) Or maybe jetlag?? Or maybe some of both. I have my first retreatants to guide for the next 8 days: three Kenyan nuns and one Kenyan diocesan priest. It is a challenge to understand their accented English. Of course I don't have an accent!! (Do I hear some heavy clearing of throats in the background??!! I still three mail shipments: one a package by one of you mailed to me; one I mailed to myself--garden seeds --and then a UPS shipment of 16 boxes of books, clothes, notes, pictures to hang, and medicines. I am in a mess if the UPS shipment does not show up. I wish I could take you all on a walk around this place. It is really beautiful. Everything grows so luxuriantly. By the way I saw my first monkey yesterday. He or she comes to steal from our banana grove. All for now! Bernie Owens