My life as a diaspora ended on the 10th of December 2012 when I finally made the brave move back to my mama Land. I remember the expression I received from my friends when I announced that I would be going back to Kenya for good. I looked at their faces, it was as if I said I was going to commit suicide.
To them, this was the worst decision I was about to make. As if moving from America to Europe wasn't bad enough now I was about to return to the third-world country.
What I didn't understand is, I grew up in Kenya all my life why would it be so difficult to just relocate and live happily ever after? who said that once you go west there is no coming back?
Me, I always knew that someday someone has to go back to their roots and I had to do it for my own sanity so the journey begins
Weather
there is no perfect weather like the one we experience in Africa. I mean who gets to have 9 months of summer and 3 months of Spring/ Autumn There is no winter although some Kenyans would tend to differ with me on this especially July/August month when everyone updates how cold it is in Nairobi and that they all just wished they had a significant other who they would happily report back home to cuddle with. The temperature they complain about is literally springtime in Minnesota.
Transportation
WOW! If there is anything I miss so much is the convenience of commuting.
One would travel from one city to another in less than an hour. In Kenya that means traveling from Nairobi to Naivasha every day to work or to school,,, this could never happen. Not in Kenya
Job Opportunity
I miss the fact that I could just quit my job and get another one in a few weeks.
Customer service
Whoever said that Ugandans need to learn Swahili, Tanzania have to learn English and Kenyans need to learn manners was not wrong. Kenyans are one of the most rudest people on earth followed by Nigerians I mean what's so hard about telling someone in a queue of a bank that your servers are low and you are working on it?
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