Adult education (3)

30 *Third and last installment* After a difficult first year, I dealt with a dreadful second year. If there is anything I have learnt over time, it is resilience. You can fake it at first but eventually it becomes who you are; you hang on to hope even when reason tells you not to, you …

Adult education (2)

29 When I received the email that I had made the shortlist, I was in shock! How?! Then the second round came and I was elated to find that I was one of the 15 East Africans chosen. Euphoria! We went for a training session in Nairobi, to get to know how to use the …

Sukuma wiki

It is one of those days. You wake up and check the weather update. ‘4 degrees but feels like 0 degrees,’ it reads. You check your mood. It seems to agree with the temperature. You open up your laptop to try and accomplish the easiest tasks first. Fail. You ever have one of those days? …

Humps ahead

Temperatures are now as low as -2 degrees in London. A normal person would probably succumb to flu or cough at most, but no, Linda had to go and attract some other bugs. After an almost 'too good to be true' fortnight, the universe decided that this lady needed to calm down a bit, thereby …