Last Saturday!

This was a special day indeed. I took my best friend out for dinner for his birthday! We went to one of our favorite restaurant in Westlands. We ate yummy Ethiopian food, and listened to some Ethiopian songs.

Happy Birthday Brian!

Kenyan bridal shower

Eve is Sophie's Older sister. Her friends and family surprised her with a bridal shower. Sophie came all the way from Arizona, for this special day. I'm missing her already. The day before the shower, Sophie and I had fun making a video game/show for Eve's special day.

Eve Enjoying herself with a big smile.

This was truly one of the best bridal shower I have seen. The food was fantastic, the games were fun, and we laughed so hard. The advices from the married people were interesting, Oh ladies can give advices I'm telling you. Laughed so much! But, some of the advices were useful! Communication is important, find time for yourself.

Re:My friend Sophie

I met Sophie a decade ago @ Reef hotel, Mombasa. She came to support her friend who was playing a friendly volley ball game with my group. I was not interested in playing, but I decided to sit close to the beach and watch the game instead. Next to me I saw a young lady. I smiled, and she smiled back. How we began the conversation, I don't remember. In less then an hour we shared so much that we made plans to go shopping in town. Since Sophie is from Mombasa, she took me around, and helped me bargain for the best prices. This was all new to me since in Namibia most places I shopped their prices are fixed. We traveled all over Mombasa downtown, and visited the internet cafe, few tourists places paying the local fees. We talked about studying in the US a lot. She invited me to her house in Diani beach beach which was a bit far from the hotel I lived in. I gave her a silly excuse because I was scared to go. She told her entire family about me, and they all liked me even though they didn't get to meet me. Before I left Mombasa, her mom sent me beautiful Kitenges. I returned to Mombasa 10 months later, and this time I went to meet her mom, one of her sisters and her brother. This was my first time in a ferry (great experience). When I returned to Namibia, we kept in touch, and we all end up going to the States. Below is Sophie, me with my kids, her youngest sister, her mom, and her other sister. They all came to visit us in Nairobi last year September. I'm looking forward to seeing Sophie again this month.

No they didn't....

Sandra Bullock was nominated for a Worst Actress award????I have to see All About Steve to decide. She's still my favorite actress though. Last night I watched "The Blind Side." An inspiring story features Michael Oher who plays for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL. This is a must see movies!

Ndamona is almost two years old!

Ndamona Reading "Baby's 1st Kiswahili Book"

Ndamona is 23 months old now. She's looking forward to her 2nd B-day. Children grow so fast. It was just like yesterday when she turned 1. Much has changed since I posted updates about her. She can dress herself, and feed herself. She is such an independent girl. If she ask for help, she'll tell you "thank you." She thinks she's grown. A couple days ago, she picked up a toy, and started pretending like she was talking to her aunt (Nyanya) on the phone. This is common for a 1 1/2 yrs old child, then she said, "Nyanya, did you call me" I couldn't believe it! Her favorite words are: Hi mommy... Done eating food, or done doing whatever she was doing. Drink please, Every time she wakes up, she'll say hi to everyone in the house, hi Bebe, hi daddy, hi mommy. She can count from one to ten in both English and Oshiwambo, Berhane is teaching her how to count from 10-20, and she is enjoying it. Favorite movies, Dora, Elmo, Scooby Doo (She even knows the characters by names). She loves to sing too. Her favorite songs: Rain rain go away, Yimwe mbali ndatu (a song and poem I created), Itsy bitsy spider... and much more. Favorite food, yogurt, bananas, oranges, strawberries, cheese, doughnut, grapes rice, meat, greens (in a nutshell, she loves variety of food). Favorite things to do: Playing blocks, reading books, bath time, T.V, walking outside and much more.

Berhane went on a school trip!

On the way to school

At school

Here you are giraffe. Feeding the giraffe is fun!

Oops, I didn't like that feel.

At the Giraffe center

Now tell me how did six children shared a bench that can fit three children? Good job. Children are good at sharing!

After the Giraffe center.

Novel Wrtiten on Cell Phone by a 15 years old!

When we talked about elearning via cellphone last year in class, it was hard to imagine. This teen has shown us a light. Yes we can develop elearning over the cell phone. Read this amazing article about the teen in Japan who wrote a novel with her thumb!

Novels Now Written on Cell Phones

Novel Idea: Cell-Phone Books

by Claudine Zap

Apologies to Tolstoy, but one of the biggest novelists these days is a 15-year-old in Japan who wrote a book from her cell phone using her thumbs. Really.

The new type of storytelling is called "keitai" — cell-phone novels. Aimed squarely at those who can't be parted from their mobiles, teens — mostly young women readers and writers — have turned the cell-phone story into the must-read phone book.

According to a story in the Los Angeles Times, the way it works is writers keep to a cell-screen-friendly 1,000-character limit per page and upload from their phones to publishing websites, then get instant feedback on plot twists and helpful fixes on typos. With a million cell-phone books and 6 million users, fans are giving the new craze a ringing endorsement. Find other books for cell phones.

The Jane Austen of the text-u-scripts is a 15-year-old who goes by the handle Bunny. Her three-volume book "Wolf Boy x Natural Girl" got its start on cell screens but ended up in print. She has sold a whopping 110,000 books so far and raked in over $600,000 in sales. Not bad for a first-time author who hasn't even taken her high-school entrance exams. The Harlequin-style romance that reads more like notes passed in class has embarrassed the author enough that she continues to go by her alias.

No offense, but you can see why when you read some typical lines: "Miku was in a pink one-piece dress, wearing white heels. She looks mature because her hair is lightly curled. She's looking straight at me. It's hard to keep my cool when she's looking at me like that."

The mobile-book trend actually took off last decade through an older author who wrote a serious story called "Deep Love," about a woman who sells herself to pay for her boyfriend's surgery, then ends up dying from AIDS. Seriously, people read that on their cell phones? Well, not any more. The economic downturn has been good for mobile books that are more escapist than edgy. Well, we can't all be Tolstoy.

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