lunch

There is one thing I really like about eating in Kenya… I can use my HANDS. … just like kids do. I like to squeeze and form a lil spoon with UGALI (the African Style of Polenta) to fill it with a delicious sauce or veggie…

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Blue Pansey Junonia oenone UKC Nairobi October 2012

Laundry @ UKC Nairobi October 2012

laundry

… it’s still luxury. there is running water. still… soon the tab will be exchanged by just a bucket of cold water… with this I am not only going to wash my clothes, but also myself. with the same soap. with the same lil cup I use for my coffee every morning. but believe me […]

matatu

Finding your way… For every foreigner it will be an experience to go by MaTaTu. The principle is easy (and I think a success in itself!): Either you go to a crowded stage which is at the first glance quite a challenge, but within this obvious chaos there is actually an underlying logical order… each […]

Koja Matatu Stage Nairobi Kenya October 2012

Ndaracaini Kinangop Kenya February 2012

Whatever we possess becomes of double value when we have the opportunity of sharing it with others.     Jean-Nicolas Bouilly (1763-1842) Writer, Politician

candlelight

my first day in Nairobi is almost over… I am sitting on my notebook, and while I am writing my first words ever for this blog – the lights switch off… all lights of Nairobi! Blackout… I am smiling. that’s life. that’s Kenya… I have been here before. and today was exceptionally amazing… being reverberated […]