The Seychelles

August 8th 2011 was not any ordinary day, i will remember the day very well since it was the day i was leaving my motherland for the first time and it was also the  first time i was getting on a plane. the excitement was  from the fact or fear of leaving my family, friends and my ''life'' behind to start over in a new country and in a new job. i remember thinking on the plane rather primitively how the people on the other side looked like whether they lived ''normal'' like us in Kenya...how were there roads, houses, food and funnily i even wondered whether they had Games like football since i had never heard of them compete in any.


I had never seen a view of a country so beautiful from above, so much water everywhere and it was all green - water and the vegetation alike. well its now 4 months and i like the change, the people, the work culture, the governance style and social life. all a contrast as is back home. If only i was a  Kenyan politician or  if i could pull a politicians' ear as a voter i would whisper to him about the Governance style in Seychelles, a government so people oriented,  that the elderly ride free on public Buses, school children ride at half fares to school and all the wananchi can afford to ride the bus since rates are fixed to any destination. Every citizen has water and electricity and Alas! no one cooks in charcoal or paraffin, since all can afford cooking gas and its affordable compared to Kenya which has a refinery. 

Eden Island in Seychelles



The heat is unbearable though and i miss the paradise weather of Nairobi, at times its so hot you skin sticks and your gaze has to be squinted otherwise you may hurt your pupils. i cannot dress in my fancy jacket or my nice sweaters i brought from home just incase. wishing for a cold break here is like wishing to squeeze water from a rock.

Seychellois strike me as the race revolution that is already happening in the rest of the world only that here it has completed a full cycle, there are the real black African and then the entire 95% of the population is made up of people of mixed race, atleast more than half of the entire world race is represented here due to intermarriages and tourists who visit the Island and leave their wild oats to thrive on the island!

this is will be my first Christmas holiday spent far away from home and family at times i cant help but marvel at the dynamics of life, i had never imagined  i would be on the other side of the world with my family and friends on the other and that such a crucial holiday in the calender would be spent in a foreign land, it never even crossed my mind in the beginning month of January 2011, i remember i had even started saving for the big day in June but then again seems like someone else plans your life rota.