So, this past saturday which was October 30th, was my Brother Imans 18th Birthday!!! I know it was a special day for him and i wish i could have been there to celebrate with him! He has recently finished all his exams and had his graduation celebration. i am so very proud of him!
Iman is my younger African brother. He will always have a special place in my heart. I remember the first day i had to find my way back home in Arusha was the scariest thing EVER! The public transportation is obviously not like what we have here in America. You have the same ole taxis, motor bikes(motorcycles), and bicycles.......but you also have Dala Dalas! Dalas are like what we would think of small mini vans. They are about 200TSH each way. Each Dala has a color on its side and depending on where your going is what Dala you ride. It was very important to learn the road names and neighborhood stop name very quickly. Anyway, my first day living with my African Host family was amazing, but of course i had to go to work. Iman walked with me to the Dala stand and even road with me to work where we actually had to get off the Dala we were on and get on another to reach my work. For the first few times my Mama paid for our transportation b/c i had no clue what was going on with the money. See in Arusha(most places in east Africa) people pay with shillings(TSH). Its about 1400TSH for every dollar. So i was still lost at this point and besides this was still the first week i had been in africa. Well we made it to work and he gave me a paper that had the route names on how i should go to get back home, i was all set. After work that day we all decided to get some drinks and relax.
This lasted a good two hours probably and then we were on our way. LOOOONG Story, but it ended up starting to get dark and i couldn't remember where to go! As a white person you shouldn't be out at dark so i decided to go home with my friend Carrie and call Iman. It was so scary, haha even though the only thing i was really scared of was being lost:) We finally reached Carries house which was right off the main road. Her Mama immediately called my brother and quickly hung up letting me know he was on his way! HAHA, i felt so bad but he arrived shortly. Thats a silly story but only one of the numerous stories i have abut my brother iman. I hope throughout this blog you begin to see him for who he is and fall in love with him as i did.
