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WHAT MAKES U AN "AFRICAN"???
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>1. You unwrap all your gifts carefully, so that you can re-use the wrapper.
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>2. You call a person you've never met before uncle or aunty.
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>3.More than 90% of the music CD's and cassettes in your home are illegal copies or nicked from friends/family.
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>4. Your garage is always full of stuff because you never throw anything away, just in case you need it someday. (A gum boot without a partner and the baby walker - baby's now 12 and you are 48).
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>5. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottle from your stays at hotels. (Go cool, Sweet heart, African pride....)
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>6. You always carry overweight baggage when travelling by plane.
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>7. If a store has a limit on the quantity of a product, then each member of the family will join separate queues to purchase the maximum quantity possible. (Sugar, soap, rice, cooking oil).
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>8. All children have nicknames and grow up not recognising their first names.
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>9. Nobody in your family informs you that they are coming to visit - and they stay for a month!
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>10. You stuff your pockets with, mints and toothpicks at restaurants and a glass from the pub/bar.
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>11. Your mother, brother, sister has a minor disagreement with a member of the family and does not talk to him/her forever.
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>12. You only make telephone calls at a cheaper rate at night and stay on the phone for at least an hour!
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>13. You never have less than 20 people to meet you at the airport or see you off even if it is a local flight.
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>14. You keep changing your Internet Service Providebecause the first month is free. (I know some people O!.....)
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>15. Office supplies mysteriously find their way to your home. (Yes, staple machine, office pins, punch machine, cello tapes, post-its, etc.)
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>16. Your parents buy/bought you clothes and shoes at least two sizes too big so that they would last longer.
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>Note: Pass this on to other Africans, so they can know what makes them truly African.
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Sylvans Ochieng Ochola
MSc. Agronomy(Crop Protection-Pathology)
C.H.S Department
Egerton University.
Tel:0724075411.
Email:ochola...@gmail.com
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Sylvans Ochieng Ochola
MSc. Agronomy(Crop Protection-Pathology)
C.H.S Department
Egerton University.
Tel:0724075411.
Email:ochola...@gmail.com