Nairobi - Post Report Question and Answers
If you move here, you can leave behind your:
hurried nature, American attitudes toward organization and speed, and heavy winter clothes. - Mar 2024
expectations of timeliness. - Aug 2023
Winter gear and carefree attitude. - Mar 2022
Electronics other than computers, TV, and phone. Heavy winter clothes like cashmere. - Aug 2021
Sense of being in a hurry. "No worries" is a lifestyle. - Dec 2018
Sense of urgency. - Dec 2018
Ideals on efficiency and western savior mentality. - Jun 2018
Fancy clothes and jewelry, winter clothing, expectations of a fair and just government, and need for solid infrastructure. - Jul 2016
winter clothes - Sep 2015
Sense of adventure - Aug 2015
heavy coats and boots, all winter gear. Seeds. American seeds often won't even sprout - get them here. Trust. Lying is commonplace; bribes are extorted at all levels, particularly by the police. - Jul 2015
Your expectations. This place will blow your mind. It is paradise. - May 2015
Fears of Africa. - Dec 2014
Fear of malaria unless you go to low lying areas. - Jun 2014
Winter clothes. - Jun 2014
Boots and winter gear. - Mar 2014
Impatience, low clearance vehicle. - Jul 2013
winter coat. - Jun 2013
Heavy winter coats. - Dec 2012
Driver's manual--there are no rules. - Aug 2012
Down coat and boots. - Dec 2011
Expectations of anything being efficient or of other drivers being polite. - Dec 2011
winter clothes. - Sep 2011
friends, it is too expensive to visit! Also, you do not need your coats or bikes. - Dec 2010
Expensive jewelry. - Dec 2009
weak stomach - you'll probably see a dead pedestrian before you leave. If you can't stand seeing very poor people, you don't belong here. The way to get around this is to help - there are lots of ways to do so, even just buying crafts at the embassy's craft fair where some of the groups help those with HIV, etc. - Jul 2009
Attitude about how messed up the country is. They know, complain about it but do nothing about it and get insulted if you mention it. - Jun 2008
Sense of freedom (brick walls, razor wire, and security guards every 20 feet tend to kill that off fairly quickly); air conditioner (it is always temperate here); and hopes that the potholes you keep driving through on your way to work will ever be repaired. - Feb 2008
