December 2011
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Me: Could you drop me off at Forty Thieves?
Ali the boda-boda driver: Yes, yes. Do you know how to say Forty Thieves in Kiswahili?
Me: No
Ali the boda-boda driver: You would if you had a Kenyan boyfriend.
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MKE-EWR-ZRH-NBO
writinginkenya:
I love the alphabet soup of airport codes. So ready to start my adventure tomorrow!
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To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you...
– Kofi Annan
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countdown to kenya: FIVE DAYS!
I’m going back to Africa in just 5 days… is this real life!?
I’ll be writing about it here :)
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Another world is not only possible, she’s on the way and, on a quiet day,...
– Arundhati Roy, from a speech entitled Confronting Empire, given at the World Social Forum in 2003
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I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge...
– Kurt Vonnegut (via emotional-algebra)