So Marwa remains to be actively busy, September like the rest of 2015 months – so far – flew by so fast. Marwa remains to be exploring possibilities on how to feed the 9 billion people expected to live on this planet by 2050 and she does that by taking good care of her good little friends: the black …
I have always had a thing for “Kinder Surprise”. It’s been many years since I last had one. This evening and while at a local supermarket, I met Mr. Kinder Surprise. For those who are not familiar with Kinder Surprise, it’s a chocolate egg that children love so much. Not only because it tastes so …
They say “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”. That is what this experience is all about. My colleagues here tell me that It didn’t take me so much time to settle in and that it doesn’t seem that I am missing out on anything I left behind. That is not true. Yes I do …
It’s been a while since I last blogged but life has been very busy on my side.Recently I started a demo prelimenary experiment to test a model I designed.Within some days hopefully will know if the design was proper so we can expand it into a larger scale or if it still needs some alterations. …
It’s my second week here and I am getting very used to my surroundings and life in Nairobi. I moved out of icipe’s guest house and into my own place. I am renting a residential unit within the household of Mama Halima and her family. My new home is less than ten minutes walk from …
Here I am, after some 8 or 9 long prep and plan months, blogging from my new short term Kenyan home. I arrived late last night to find the driver that icipe had arranged for my airport pickup waiting outside the arrivals hall. He actually waited for sometime, as I managed to purchase a Kenyan …