Vanessa
Wijngaarden
At Home in East Africa
April 07 - October 27, 2012
The Netherlands, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
April 07 - April 13, 2012
The Netherlands
Amsterdam, Hoofddorp (African BBQ goodbye, buy camera, make handle out of motorbike steer)
April 13 - May 15, 2012
Kenya
Nairobi (energy in nightly Nairobi)
Oltepesi (mission life, contributing to the readings at our catholic church services in Maa, playing with the ostriches and zebras, dramatic thunderstorm rainbow skies, swollen river walks, being dumb lamb at slaughtering, heavens open)
Mashuru, Oltepesi (Bishop inaugural fest with Mexicans and Ilkaputei, stuck in the riverbed)
Kaijado (riding through the landscape on the back of a pickup with the father’s)
Nairobi (at home at River Road)
May 15 - May 31, 2012
Tanzania
Dar es Salaam (at home again with an expat family, complicated paperwork, forcing yourself in the bus during peak hour)
Zanzibar, Mbweni (stone town conversations, teargas in the church, beautiful beach and roof terrace)
Paje (beach bungalow’s with hammock beds above the sand, an amazing day of walking and swimming the crystal clear water, warrior losing his sword)
Dar es Salaam (praying with the rastafari)
May 31 - June 02, 2012
Kenya
Nairobi (huge apostolic church)
Kaijado, Oltepesi, Kaijado (discrimination by a Maasai mzee, pick camera, sunrise while waiting for the bus)
June 02, 2012 – August 18, 2012
Tanzania
Namanga, Oldonyo Sambu, Mkuru, Arusha, Arusha NP, Ngare Nanyuki (prayers in all korongos, tribal strife, 300 morani visiting our village, spear pointed at me, sleeping in the single room at the back of the mission, fighting in the cattle coral with newly circumcised warrior, a newborn child in my arms, dancing at weddings and circumcision ceremonies, long camel safari)
Oldonyo Sambu, Namanga
August 18 - August 22, 2012
Kenya
Nairobi, Eldoret (tea plantations, church revelations, homely talks in the kitchen)
August 22 - 01 September, 2012
Uganda
Kampala (two weeks of fasting, posh concerts)
Entebbe, Kalangala, Sesse Islands (prayers, boating, rainforest walk ceremony, sleeping in a beautiful hippie cabin, sunset dinner on the beach)
Kampala (birthday dinner in the mall)
Kampala forest (talks about life, rolex and graceful throwing up)
01 September - 04 September, 2012
Kenya
Nairobi, Naivasha (getting lost at the border, flowerfarm)
Naivasha, Nairobi, Namanga (filling cooling water every kilometer, many car brakedowns)
04 September – October 13, 2012
Tanzania
Arusha (crossing the border at night, my home in Arusha eating with the personnel)
Oldonyo Sambu, Mkuru (chances of fire, slaughtering a baby goat)
Oldonyo Sambu, Longido, Kitumbeine (market raided, chasing elephant tracks, ‘Maasai original’, sleeping under the stars on a cowskin, childbirth celebration, toilet tricks, meat at the market)
Longido, Oldonyo Sambu, Mkuru (no water)
direction lake Momela, Mkuru (slaughtering a good goat, huge bushfires on the hills, visiting a school at night, orpul going with one goat coming back with two, the last day in the village, filming, fasting and sleeping in the shade, music in the korongo)
Oldonyo Sambu, Namanga
October 13 - October 14, 2012
Kenya
Nairobi (the end of engagment)
October 14 - October 27, 2012
The Netherlands
Amsterdam
Hoofddorp, Bayreuth