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Originally Posted by Kariuki Wanjau
In Bangalore, the weather is like Nairobi, so like nilifika huku when it was hot and I had shaven my cranium. Here in South India there are Indians as black as Sudanese, nywele zao ndio difference. So my bald ass is walking around tao, jumping across the road, blatantly snobbing the traffic cops who think I'm insane. So they catch up to me, and launch into Kannada (local language). A whole 6 minutes of incoherent blabbering plus a threat of incarceration later, I said "excuse me?"
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Similar experience on my visit to Kolkata and the West Bengal state where jamaas would start speaking to me in their Bengali. In Sri Lanka, the worst. They make wrong-number call on your mobile or landline and they take couple of minutes talking mostly in Sinhala and in rare cases Tamil. The Kenyan in me made ask them in Swahili wanataka nini?