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He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster in a raucous group, and pass whole evenings complaining about the barbarity of the locals. These were the few who actually noticed that locals did things differently. Others managed to travel so __overed and wrapped in a taciturn and incommunicative prudence, defending themselves from the contagion of an unknown atmosphere_ that they noticed nothing at all.

That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.

You are the captain of your emotions. No one and nothing can control those feelings except you. You have the sole ability to either let these make or break you, inspire or destroy you."- Elizabeth's Quotes

One thing I have learned is that the people who label you are usually the ones who know the least about who you really are and they have never made the effort to learn different.

If you find yourself cutting corners, go in a circle instead

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

Have you ever entered a kitchen to find a woman, her legs crossed while the rest of her body is dressed in colourful khanga, smiling at you while her hands are making a melodious song with a coconut grater? Have you ever wondered how any woman size can fit on that grater regardless of their body size? The time for wondering is over. East Africa heartily welcomes you to see for yourself. Go and visit it.

It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming.

Letting go is impossible when you're holding a grudge." -Faydra D. Fields

The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. ..

Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired.

CoMMOn SeNSe iS nOt sO cOmMOn aMoNg coMMon pEOPLe...

To eat Ugali is an art of adventure in itself. Forget cutlery because all you need is your lovely fingers.

What's the bigger risk: Taking the risk, or not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by taking the risk, even if you fail?

Then I learnt of __hite Christmas_, which again I found very peculiar since we always have a white Christmas at home for it never passes by without eating rice. That is our white Christmas.

My thick and full lips shall pout their African ancestry until all sorrows are kissed out of me.

Drooling over an African figure that I could never have, I feasted my eyes uponthe swaying mounds of my fellow African sisters.

Be careful what you wish for cause you just might get it.