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March 13, 2009
Alien No More!
I arrived safely back in Nairobi about 4 hours ago, and for the most part, I'm beat! Thanks to all of you who prayed and gave towards this trip. Because of your generosity we have more than covered the travel expenses for the entire trip! I left Nairobi on Sunday night and had a great flight back to the US. Although I missed my connecting flight in NY, I was able to get on a later flight and arrived home in TN around midnight on Monday.
My oath ceremony was on Wed morning and I was blessed to have the largest fan base present. There were 10 of my family and friends that came to show there support and it was such a blessing. I envisioned that there might be 10 to 20 applicants recieving their citizenship and was quite shocked to find that there were over 250 of us from 67 different countries. It was quite an event and in the end, I did indeed come away with my certificate of naturalization. After a quick celebratory lunch eating "good old american bar-b-q and sweet tea" I was able to apply for my US passport at the post office and hope to recieve that in the next several weeks.
I then had to get home and pack the bags to catch my flight out of our regional airport at 6:15 that same evening. (I did retain my Canadian citizenship and traveled on my Canadian passport to get back to Kenya) After a night in a hotel near the JFK airport in NY, I was back on my way home via Dubai and safely home by 4pm this afternoon.
Thanks again for all your prayers and support through all of this. Abbie, had the hard job and did really well with the kids during the time that I was away. We are thankful and happy to be together again!
Please click on the "Photos" tab if you would like to see a few pictures from the oath ceremony. We'll work hard at getting some Africa pictures on there soon. Thanks for your patience!
Take care and God bless,
Reini
Posted at 01:01 PM