Bitterjug’s blog

Im here in this (poxy) cybercafe in Nairobi. I got up at 5 this morning and hauled ass over to the capital. Started early to avoid the bad bad traffic jams in the city. Mondays, I was told, are particularly bad with people coming back from weekends away. My first job this morning wa […]

So I was wrong about where my colleague wanted to take me. It wasn’t to visit his home place, but to visit his friend who is the quality manager of a Tea factory.

And the cabbage (me!) didn’t take his camera! What a fantastic trip! Two matatu rides up to the green highlands by the foot […]

I’m off to visit the home of a colleague today. Many Kenyans have told me they’d like me to come and visit their home places. This is the first one to actually come up with a plan. I’ve to leave right now but first I just had to put up the decorations in my parlour. […]

And this was on the other board:

(I’ve also added a photo of the Party and one the Snake)

Yesterday I went on a nice trip to Nairobi with Theresa and Katie the Peace Corps volunteers for me to get a new Phone and for them to have a day out and do some shopping in a supermarket. I’d done my 8km run in the morning and had tired legs all day. When I […]

On monday evening I lay in bed and listened to the drama enacted above my head by what I take to be rodents of some sort betwixt the ceiling and the roof.

Mass Murder
ACT 1
Scene 1 A house in Kenya, the bedroom.
Mark (in bed): looks up in the darkness through the mosquito net toward the […]

Last night a wonderful thing happened: My stage IV students invited me to join them in the dining hall where they were celebrating one of their birthdays! What a lovely time we had, dancing to friday night radio, eating food they had cooked, singing happy birthday (including the Kenyan second verse!).
After the meal they inaugerated […]

So, the verdict on my old Nokia 3310 is that it is dead. Passed on. Shuffled off this mortal coil. Gone to meet its maker. curled up its tootsies. Run down the curtain and gone to join the bleeding chior invisible.

The night before it gave up the ghost, I was deleting some icons of beaches […]

OK I stayed up **way** too late last night doing this new ‘look’ for bj.com and I haven’t tested it in Micro$oft Internet Explorer yet (but it looks fine in Mozilla) so would you guys please let me know how it looks? (and also what you think, but don’t be too critical yet, Im still […]

So last night I finally got home at 11.45pm. Here’s the story (featuring Du Do Nuts)

My stage V students seem to lack willingness to learn. They always have. As we approach the exam (its today at 11 something) their level of panic has risen. On Monday the rep approached me and told me there was […]