So after whining over the fear that I wouldn’t be able to do bungee jumping for my birthday, I managed to do so not without a pretty decent pack of 3 other insane peeps who agreed to come along with me. We left Nbi late and I can’t remember the last time I was on the road to Nyeri let alone driving there - it took forever. We made it in time for the sunset, managed to pay, sign our lives away, get weighed, get strapped up, and climb a 60m ladder to the top of the crane before plunging into the air all in the name of ‘what the hell were you thinking’. Yup once you are up that 60m crane you realize that as fun as it sounds bungee jumping is a bad idea! Esp as you are you being jerked up and down in the air seeing various colors of blue, green brown like a Sony Bravia Ad! But as soon as you are safe on the ground, all teared out and the adrenaline settles… you realize that was the most fun you’d had EVER and that it could be done again but not on this side of 30.
Another fun (but very weird) thing that happened is on Friday (actual day of my birthday) is that I got invited to a Senga session @ someone’s house in Hurligham ( I eventually found out it was due to someone’s birthday). Anyway, I tell you the one bottle of wine didn’t do me justice as I needed to be a bit more drunk than I was. Please note I was sitting there watching a naked woman excite herself while telling us where we go wrong as women of Kenya - how we lack respect & humility for our men et al! Yeah, ok so she was right to some extent but we have to accept that the female cultures of Tanzania & Uganda are so different from ours. Plus it’s not entirely our fault and maybe we should take steps into teaching the next generation about how to handle themselves, however that should be right after we school ourselves first. I say this mainly because I don’t see my mother & aunties suddenly breaking tradition and start telling me on how to go on about sex and to handle my husband… (creepy).
Today morning I got an exciting surprise. At 8am, my dear friend gave birth to a lovely bouncing baby girl with a name fit for an angel! Congrats to her & the new dad… it’s been a long, interesting but very exciting 9-months; I am happy & proud to have been part of the journey; and I pray to be there as this new life starts for all three of them. May the Lord bless their new blessing.
