WINTER IS HERE
A bus. It’s occupants. Chaos. A keen observer would notice that a great deal of things are happening in here. I blame the cold. Winter is here - it attacked at dawn. “ Tumia cough drop, upate nafuu mpendwa. Baridi kama hii inaleta homa na magonjwa kadhaa, cough drop ya KSL itakusaidia sana. Ni shillingi kumi tu,” energetically chimes the highway cough-drop vendor in this KBS Nairobi-bound bus. On his left hand is an open packet of the cough drops, on the right some coins which I’m assuming were part of his sales for the day. On his back is a black backpack with grey horizontal stripes at the back. One would assume that it carried other packets of his product but Nairobi being Nairobi, one’s mind might be triggered to think otherwise but today we choose to think - cough drops, yes? Yes. If the backpack could talk, it would probably say that’s it’s been needing quality rest & relaxation time. It tightly holds on for dear life because it’s got a relentless hard working man depending