Saturday 21 September 2013

A Week in The Platform!

Life is strange. You meet people, you leave people. Some of them you even forget everything about them. Some you meet and become friends but destiny interrupts. Some you live with them, help each other in life but at end go separate ways and never meet again. That's life!

Two weeks ago i got an email inviting me for a global change course. As a change agent i was very happy to receive the good news and i had a lot of expectations. I call myself a selfless person even though not to that extent but i believe in the judgement of my own. After receiving the mail i knew it was another chance not only of learning but also meeting new people and living with them for another fifty eight days. 

The day came and it was that Sunday evening with a lot of excitement. Despite being sad to leave the hood and the land lady who had started bringing trouble every night, not because i had not paid her but because i had not offered her free beers for two months. She kinda got tired of me, an altruist who used to help her solve her every day problems. 

The journey was not that long but i was escorted by the new friends i had made in the hood. They all thought i was going Mbele kimya kimya (Abroad). These friends whom most of them were weed smokers. I had to make friendship with them for security reasons. They say keep your friend close but your enemies closer. I wanted them  to be their friends so as to avoid trouble every time i go to my room late. 

Arriving at platform was not that hard. As a trump i approached the get and meet this security officer whose face i don't remember. As i entered the room i meet a Gambian friend whom we had a short chat about the football match. I made more and more friends as times go on. I think it was a first time to make such friend in just a second.

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