rs. During the last two days I had some unbelievable experiences. In the morning at 4 am I went out of the house to take the journey to Nairobi where the kidstokids container is blocked since several months. Our secretary, Njaga joined me. First we could share the driving and secondly it was saver not to be alone. In the past weeks we were mainly occupied dealing with the Government to get the different permissions but now it was the actual work of filling out dozens of papers at the customs in Nairobi. Each officer adds his stamp until he papers were filled to the brim. The agent at the last station told us that we have to go back to the entrance gate to get a pass. Finally we were standing in front of the container where we had to find a worker with pliers who should remove the seal. Then we would have to unload everything to be controlled by him. It was five minutes before his lunch brake, so he hesitated to do it before he would leave. On my side I convinced him that it does not take more than five minutes to do it otherways I would do it myself. Then reluctantly he did his job but the lock was not moving. Something had been crashed and blocked. The door could only be opened with the help of a fork lift truck and after five tries we succeded.
Njaga was worried that we would have to unload everything by ourselves, but I only laughed at him and said, that we now call the agent in charge of controlling the content and he can tell us what to do. He came and convinced himself that there was only school supplies in the container but he asked for a seal number but there was none to be found. He said we should go back to the entrance where we could get a number. Back in the office we got again some stamped forms that we had to bring to the airport where we got the final paper. But the actual transportation to Nakuru will only take place next week. So we spent two days from 4 am to 11.30 pm just getting done the last paper works... that is the second last episode of our container episode.
On the way to Nairobi. In the custom area we were not allowed to take pictures.
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