That time of the year
It seems the city council’s efforts to introduce a proper drainage system to the junction of Church and Rhapta roads have failed. As we’re now in Kenya’s “short” rain season it looks like I’ll have to get used to tip toeing around this small lagoon for a few more weeks. This is the time of [...]
Umbrella season
Something that boggles my mind is people getting caught in the rain without an umbrella. I’ve seen it a lot in the past week, now that the Kenyan summer is over and the rainy season has finally arrived. What stumps me is that the long rains in Kenya happen EVERY year in March/April; it’s not [...]
They don’t sleep there anymore…
The refugees who have been sleeping on my street have vanished. I came home a few days ago and was surprised to see all of their stuff was gone and they were nowhere to be found. The only thing remaining was one of the soggy cardboard boxes they used to sleep on. We all speculated [...]
They do sleep there…
So it turns out the refugees down the street are refugees and they do sleep there on the side of the road. Call me naïve, but it wasn’t always obvious to me (and nobody has explained any of this to me). I’ve seen bunches of them come and go pretty regularly since I moved to [...]
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