Things Always Get Worse
Whenever you think that things couldn’t possibly get more busy/stressful/expensive/whatever, they do! Here’s the deal, I posted a few weeks ago that our semester had started and that I was teaching four classes; it turns out that I’ll be teaching five! A student came last week saying she failed a class in 2005 and she [...]
Pat In Kenya
I met a new mzungu a few days ago. She’s Pat, and she’s a Peace Corps volunteer in Nguluni, a very small town a few kilometers from Tala. I’ve never been there, but I pass by it in matatus all the time. Maybe this will give me an excuse to go there. She’s working at [...]
The King(s) of Kenya
Not me, haha, Mwai Kibaki. They say he’s the president, but he’s more like a king. I knew he was filthy rich, but a recent newspaper article in The Nation detailed his earnings. Here’s the deal, he earns 2 million Kenyan shillings as a basic salary and another 1.2 million in allowances (entertainment, they say). [...]
Lover of Linux, death metal and Indian food, blogs about living and working in Nairobi, Kenya.