Flights have been booked and draft timetable made up!

Hello again,

This is the first proper post on the Meru-Grove Visit 2012 blog.

We have news: the flights for the Kenyan visitors have been booked which means they are definitely coming! We can now start to go into more details about exactly what they will be doing when they arrive.

They are to fly from Nairobi via Dubai to Glasgow on Wednesday 8th August 2012, arriving in Scotland around midday on the 9th. They will be taken straight to Broughty Ferry (or Forfar!) to settle down and recover from the journey. The next day will then see us all travel  to Edinburgh for the day and in the evening join the Edinburgh Tattoo performances.
The following weekend will consist of sightseeing and visiting places like St Stephen's and West Church.
From the Wednesday to the Friday as well as the following Monday and Tuesday the Kenyan pupils must attend school (conditions of the grant) and so they will accompany us to our classes during the day and in the evening sample our extra-curricular activities. Also in the evenings although the visitors will be home-hosted and will eat with our families, there will be pot-luck dinners at several houses.
The final weekend will involve more activities.

The visitors will return to Kenya on Tuesday 21st August after what will hopefully be a worthwhile visit.

Keep up to date with all the goings-on by following this blog as well as the Grove-Meru Visit 2011 blog as it will still be updated with whatever we are doing. We also hope to start up another Twitter feed to give people information closer to the event and during the visit.

Kwaheri
the Kenya team
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