Can't say how much I have been away but I remember the last time I was talking about taking Zainab [Jenny] to Nairobi, Kenya and I was afraid of the riots there that had started post election and apparently we were supposed to leave on the 31st but by then I had not even packed my bags and so we called the bus service and asked then if we could move our tickets forward till things calmed down and lucky enough I knew this fella and he agreed . So on the 16th of January, I finally packed my bags and we were off to Dar and was confident to get on the bus and finally on the 18th we left for Nairobi. On reaching the border we had our passports stamped and one of the officers forgot to stamp Zainab's passport so we had to go running back and he said that in our chatting he over looked and forgot... seems out of reality at that point and so finally, we reached Nairobi at 10.00pm at night, having started at 7.00am that morning.
We were received by Zainab's [Jenny] friends and taken to our suburban cosy guest house [read -not hotel] and then the next day we went looking for the designated school and had Zainab enrolled, and that week had been buying , paying, reading, eating and waiting till I left Kenya on Friday the following week which was on Friday 29th of January and was back home on the Sunday that week.

On my journey to Nairobi, I saw a lot of things that made a difference to me and my life although I am not sure the same could be implied here in Tanzania where I live, but there, I saw that many locals spoke English and were quiet educated, and many of them were courteous although there is nothing liike 'Ahsante' [Thank-you] or 'Naomba' [Please may have], but they are learning and we are learning too.
such a big difference between the 2 countries and a lot of power struggle that it makes you wonder who is not corrupt in this world....?????
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o as to speak/write, Zainab [Jenny] is well settled and is with a loving family and she goes to the college and is learning a lot of new things, I think and feel that she is responsible and does a lot of things that she would not have done, for example frying foodstuff, like eggs or eggybread would not have been her choice and now making tea on a stove is nothing new to her. I guess when we are with our parents or our parents home we tend to leave things on them or house help but when we go outside of our home we do things that we would not have done at home. And now that she is away, I miss her terribly and mum does too, although we keep silent about it but deep down in our hearts we know how much she means to us and how much she has enriched our lives all these years.

We call each other everyday and it's become a ritual to call her at night even it's for a a minute. I guess we move forward and and look for what the future has in store for us. The past has rich memories and wonderful experiences that teach us a lot in life learning and it's meaning.
My sister and me, Love you Jenny........