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On a trip to Kenya (December 1994)
In Kenya, we went together with the electrician. Electric lived in Berlin for 7 years. In the 84th year we all (Nadya, I, an electrician and have a lot of people living now in Germany) met in Tajikistan. His wife, Ursula Electricity awarded a contract for one year at the UN in Nairobi.When you fly an airplane over Africa, the striking absence of traces of human activity. First - the Sahara desert without a single road over Algeria and Libya, then desert swells and hills, then go real mountains, and in Chad to see the great crater, then some bushes - but not a single road and a single city. We flew to Brussels as plane to Brussels late, we in the domestic minivan immediately boarded a plane to Africa. After a couple of hours of flight we suddenly bothered to listen to that mumbles in English speaker, and why we never heard the word "Nairobi." It turns out that we wished "Good luck to arrive in Kigali. Looking at the map, where Kigali, we found that it is in a country with a cheerful name of "Rwanda. The experience of Soviet aircraft, I imagined how we planted in this Rwanda, and then the plane is delayed for a couple of days. However, the stewardess reassured me, saying that the plane we will not go. In Kigali, we arrived when it was dark. Since the plane of Kigali - a number of single candles that are not connected with each other light the streets. And total darkness around.
In Nairobi, we were met by Ursula on their own at the end of Suzuki's broken down, which she bought for big money. She gave it to some local mechanic for repairs, he disappeared with the car in complete obscurity, and (very strange) to our arrival still came up, and forget to fix the car. In Kenya, drive on the left and the complete absence of rules. To speed limits in villages on the road lay the pipe, which is filled with asphalt (it is called "Bumps"), and nothing left to do, how to reduce the rate of up to two miles per hour. Sometimes Bumps is not visible, and has good bounce. At police checkpoints, which are put everywhere even steeper - raise sharp rake, who must keep to a sine curve.
Ursula has not yet found an apartment and lives with Sylvia. Sylvia does not like partying, so we put in a hotel. In Sylvia's two-story house with a garden, surrounded by high fences with spikes and barbed wire. At the entrance - as booth at the Embassy in Moscow, which sits guard (Askari). When the owners Askari freezes with Kalashnikov in a rack in his gun, standing motionless and shining eyes. In other houses, and at the entrances to the hotel, there are often Askari from some undersized debility tribe with a wooden club. More Sylvia has a gardener and a maid. One day Sylvia came and saw that the gates wide open and no guards. She pressed the alarm and took fifteen minutes as arrived armed to the teeth with the team. It turned out that the guard just sleeping under a tree in the garden. Nevertheless, the life of the guard more calm, because responsible for the safety not by him personally, but a whole company, and the likelihood that the same will guard cronies rob the house is lower than the probability of a massacre.
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