Saturday, December 17, 2005

Small victories..


...it took me sometime to get round to writing this part of my storo's lakini,nimekuwa 'bizee' kidogo. Where was i?
..So 2 weeks later,i got back to the Registrar of Persons to pick my birth cert.I thought i should also remind you guyz how far AG's place is from the KenCom bus stop. U have to walk from Kencom to past Kenya Cinema, up the entire length of Harambee Av. b4 u get there. Any way,moving things along, i was pleasantly surprised to find that the guyz down there actually do some work.
No big promises, but no big disappointments either! I did line up for almost 45 mins, and it did take them another 5 minutes to shuffle thru' the piles of rummage, but finally,i got it. After hours of agonising queues and missed ward rounds,it was well worth it. The pieces seemed to be falling together.My ID and birth cert were sorted out,now for my passport. 2 days later,and in true Kenyan fashion,i called my bro', who'd told me that some friend of his had known someone at Nyayo hse,who'd helped him get his.I wasted no time.
Somewhere on 17th floor(i think) was where i had to go. Somehow i was not surprised when i got there and his sec told me that he was in the field. "The field?", i ask. Apparently this guy is like immigration security, or something, so he had gone to bring in some illegal 'alien'. Yeah, looks like it's not just America that has problems with "illegals". The govt. here(Stato) wants to build a fence right across their border with Mexico.Lakini Mexicans have been known to build tunnels under border posts! Such is the desperation to get into America. There are 300 million Americans,and it's estimated that as many as 11 million of them are illegal.I think it's true, since almost all of u reading this knows one of them...
So back to my vibe. i decided waiting was not an option,no one knew when he'd be back(isn't that the best job in the world?) "lakini, utampata asubuhi b4 8.30.." It looked like i was going to have a very early morning,2 beat the traffic and make sure i don't miss the dude.

Lazima nilale sasa, kesho, sio?
Pamojaz,
Monda.

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