location: talentus cyber cafe & tm meditation centre
environment: last days hitting the keys in arica.....countdown... 26 hours until my grand departure, the return journey begins... i am off to the "winning side of capitalism"
today..... is the greatest....fruit salad breakfast follwed by white tea..... i used a bolex camera, made in switzerlanmd in the 70, shipped via ebay from durban, with the double perf film an angel sent me from ottawa. i loaded the first of 5 rolls in a supermarket, they had a changing bag yet the end got jammed so i gave a demonstration about archaic technology at the nakumatt. after that i just tried to load it in my own shadow. i had a camera assiant named daniel who is 13. he told me which f-stop to set the lens to. he lead me around his school, this is the river, look at those kids. they were all shy, and curous about this old technology, why did it make so much noise? what kind of machine is this? My sound girl naomi, interviewedher friends with my video camera. the time seemed long, but the minutes passed slowly. I documented a play i ordered the children's garden students to perform, it was disappoining visually, i am reminded to work on their blocking for next time. when exactically is unknown, yet certain. I visited the new house of the headmaster moses and the extended family that lives in the rescue centre. they were watching a film made in nigeria...dramtica beyond my perspective. then some nuns came to chat and i hit the road, jumped on a matatu via naivasha road and headed for adams, where i ordered a wrap party mocha.
things i will miss about east africa
1. leisurly pace= polepole " there is now hurry in arfica "
2. black faces and features, big lips with warm smiles.
3. negotiating the price for anything sold by the side of the road.
4. drives thru expansive wilderness savanah, acacia and neem trees
5. floating on the ocean when ever i please, simply to cool the hottest part of the day
6. bongo flavor, kenyan club music and any other shake your bootie sounds
7. matatus, dala dala's minibuss public transportation with conductors that leave when they are filled
8. seeing women walking with fallen trees on there heads or large buckets of miscelaneous substances
9. women with babies strapped to their backs with khangas10. glansing out the window while washing a plate to see monkeys, with blue balls, bouncing on the trees,
food & drinks= sun riped papaya's, magoes and pinapple dripping with flavour, ugali na sukumawiki, maize from the roadside, madafu, chipsi mayai, fish, chapati's, soda pop in glass bottles, especially stoney tangawezi, fanta passion and picana, avacados the size of infants,
what is intend to do when i arrive home to canada
(scheduled to arrive in termainal 4 toronto at 5:50pm friday, september 15
- hug my family and friends
- visit people in parks and make house calls
- take a bubble bath
- eat olives and feta cheese and fast food
- re-arrange my room at my parents house, in london
- do laundry with a machine...ohhhhh ahhhhhh
- paint, edit, art work, facepaint outside the gates of the western fair
- fundraise door to door to send some books to some kids in Nairobi
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