Kenya is wet!

Yay! Its back to school again and i have never been so relieved. Don’t get me wrong, i love kids but being around them 24-7 can drive anyone insane. For instance my “bright” neighbour bought his kid a harmonica! Who does that? Now the child thinks he is Steve Wonder or something and somehow he always uses my door as a muse as he blows the thingy all day. And i don’t mean to be rude but that child can’t carry a tune with a bucket. So parents if you are going to buy your kids musical instruments at least follow it up with music lessons and spare us the agony of being ear-raped by their bad playing. Today i haven’t heard him play, so i guess i was saved by the school opening.

The rains are here people , its only been less than a month and it is already wreaking havoc all over the country. I literally watched on telly some dude fishing in his compound after the rains made the river banks burst somewhere in Nyanza and send fish swimming into people's compounds. You should have seen, the look on the people's faces...priceless! 

Now whatIi don't get is, why we act surprised every year when we get floods but do nothing about it. People are sent to the high grounds and then they go back afterwards. I mean isn't it about time we did something about it once and for all? Some permanent solutions by the government or at least make the water work for us by i don't know building dams or something? 

Then the worst part is that the floods are always quickly followed by a period of drought after all the crops and animals have been swept away. I'm now watching Mr.Gullet from Red cross and he is saying there are still some Kenyans on food aid.smh. Its 2012 and we still struggling to feed people while good ol' Egypt is a desert and they are more secure than we are. They have made use of technology with their limited natural resources to make it work for them. We are still in the "naomba serikal" mode while they are busy saying - in the words of Bitange Ndemo "hapa kuna kitu ya kukura" in NHIF and all.lol! It is so exhausting talking about the same thing every year...sigh!

This is what my neighbour hood looks like, (it was worse yesterday) we are prisoners in our own homes! I think i have rickets...

One of my neighbours has to "swim the moat" every morning when he leaves his house and go to pick his car which he has to park in the other estate. There are some men making a killing in our esto my literally carrying people on their backs across the water for like 20bob. The funny part is watching men getting piggyback rides. I am afraid that by the end of the rainy season our men may never have children again!