Mombasa - Lamu

well i have finally found some internet again. and that is on the island of Lamu. just a quick update. lamu is very very very slow place. you have peace of mind. the only traffic is people. again. the posting of pictures will have to wait. and also i more in depth report! mombasa raha as they say. its a place most people will enjoy visiting. chaos, relaxed attitude. and the much safer place then Nairobi. anyway. must go again. peace people

Nairobi

yo! i can't seem to upload my pictures. so unfortunatley people. your jsut going to have to reading.... boring i know. i'm sorry. and my english skills are obviously not the best!..... sitting in Nairobi at the moment. where my mum was brought up. though, i don't think it was the Nairobi she grew up in. it has become a lot more conjested, taller buildings, and busted up streets.... it has a simlar feel to India. though. I felt india was more to do with food, textile and craft. here. it seems more to do with. mechanical stuff.... but i have only seen Nairobi so far.... so we'll see what the rest of the journey has in store..... went to see my mums fathers old factory. it was really nice to see how a simple skrew or a metal water heater and stuff. was made from scratch.... also, the language barrier is another interesting thing. in India i could get by. here its going to be a little more interesting to move around and get things. and not get ripped off along the way lol. anyway.... gotta jet peace.

Oman - Kenya

Ok, so i start my journey to Kenya today. leaving Sohar... to Musact and then landing in Nairobi , hopefully! still have too much luggage! i always remember this trekker me and Laurits meat in the Himalayas. he said he only carries 10kg and he told a story of hos he broke his girlfriends hair brush handle off. because he said it was useless weight lol.... and another friend Aaron who told me how he traveled through India. with just a rucksack. and here is me with so much. i don't even know where it all comes form. it just kinda appears. need to learn how to carry less stuff! but anyway.... hope this next leg of the journey is fruitful! just as the previous two have been.

Sleeping in India

I recently received this [below]and a couple more pictures from Sara. a friend from Sangath, in an e-mail. i was delighted to see the e-mail, that someone could remember me and go out of their way to pick the photographs and send them to me. there are some very thoughtful people in this world. and i met a lot of them in India. may they continue to be thoughtful! a story to note i heard from abdal aziz fredricks.
 Hatim al assam [my spelling may be off] a great great scholar. A woman came to him to ask a question. She came to him, about to ask the question..... and what happens? she breaks wind. she is so embarrassed
 and he sees how embarrassed she is. and he says to her, whats your question!? she asked the question. I can't hear you! he shouts.
 the woman stops and raises her voice. I STILL CAN"T HEAR YOU. WHAT DID YOU SAY? he turns to the people around him and says WHAT DID SHE SAY? Write it down! the scholar shouts.
so the woman begins to write the question down. OH! sorry i didn't hear you. as she was writing the question down. she begins to feel cool. "the guys deaf he didn't hear me, break wind she thinks". 
Hatim al Assam is called Hatim al Assam, the deaf one. for 20 years he pretended to be deaf!! to make the woman feel good about herself.... What people.

All that glitters is not gold

All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgement old
Your answer had not been inscroll'd
Fare you well, your suit is cold.

line in William Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice,

they use the synonym 'glisters'.

Jerry

Oh Man... Good times!.... 9am. "ALI!!" "N and S come running in, "Ali Paa, there is a mouse!". so i'm thinking, oh great i have to pretend i'm not scared and help with a mouse. anyway, the brave soul that i am. i walk into the room, everyones looking at this sofa [new sofa].  remember, i am half asleep at this point because i have not seen 9am for a long time lol. anyway.... the extra food for the house is stored under th sofa, thinkings life fizzy drinks, biscuits etc...  so we begin to take the food out, in search of this Mouse.... no sign of it yet.... everything is out. on the floor... hmmm we wonder.... everyone is stood around this sofa bed. looking into the empty compartment...[its blue btw]. eve.ryone is stook over the empty comparment... in silence... then the mouse pops its head out from under the comparment..... S shouts MOUSE! and everyone pauses, not knowing waht to do. the mouse pauses. everyone is looking at everyone, the mouse is looking at everyone. and then it rushed into the inside of the actual sofa. the place you lean your back.... Damn, he's going to set up camp there, we thought... now it was stuck....we lifted the sofa up vertically and started to smack it. then uncle realised if it comes out. we'll only have to catch it again in another part of the hosue. so we took the sofa into the garden.... continued to beat it.... someone had the idea of cutting the back of it.... so we did. destroying the sofa slowly... slit no mouse.... then we realised. if it comes out. its still in the Garden, therefore still able to get in the house.... now its in from of the house. in the middle of the society. kids are looking at us strangly as we hit thie sofa. and probs people form inside their houses. anyway. we stop... jsut watch the sofa for a while. and the mouse pops its head out.... it looks at us S gets scared and run inside... the mouse does the same..... anyway.... before we knew it the the sofa had been thrown away. it rested peacfully near the public bin. uncle informed aunty about the sofa. she was shocked and confused to the removal of the sofa. uncle said. look "it was either the sofa or the mouse". but it was a new sofa she added "look on the positive side, you got rid of a mouse and you get to buy a new sofa"

and the sofa now lives with a bengali family we saw taking it. little did they know this item comes with a free toy......