so now, i'm back. i'm back home. i'm finally back home. after nine months. i got so emotional when the plane touched down. i know people have been away for longer but still. getting out of the plane... did you guys know that Kenya has a "smell"? it does. not like a stenhc, just a smell. that's what greeted me at the airport. i know i'll lose all my street cred for this next sentence but, the firtst thing i heard through the intercom at JKIA was "Karibuni Kenya mabibi na mabwana..." i couldn't fight the tears. i was so happy. hearing guys talking on swa, and that swa having kikuyu and luo and kale accents, the rusty luggage trolleys, the arrogant airport clerks, some random trying to get me to buy a suffericom line at 200bob (yeah, suffericom, apparently that's what the locals are calling it these days) it was theraputic.
SA was okay, just okaym nothing extra ordinary but towards the end of the year i needed to get away, i needed to get away so bad. i was tired of how they didn't have goat meat, how beef was so expensive, how all they locals thought i was south african and always talked to me in xhosa, how all the houses looked the same, how the streets were never crowded, how the clubs always played kwaito... i could go on for a minute, but i won't, i'm sure ya'll get the point.
being home... there's nothing it. the traffic, the wreckless driving, the potholes, the atmosphere, seeing psyched friends, eating chapos drinking Kenyan tea, seeing cool bill boards, funny adverts, how the javz don't stop operating at night,the cheap internet rates with zain and Orange, (i'm totally zaining now) it's great to be back people!!!
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Monday, November 17, 2008
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