Today I am blogging at a cyber cafe in London. A very noisy cyber cafe where children look over your shoulder as you surf. Nightmare…anyway..
I have a lot to blog about…but not enough time. For now I’ll do a short entry which will probably only make sense to Kenyans.
While on the train down from Lancaster a member of the catering staff made a tannoy announcement informing us what they had in stock. Something about the voice over the tannoy told me the speaker was African. Unlike most rail annoucements I have heard – the announcer spoke clearly and articulately. The content of his annoucement was no different from all the others I have heard before. Crisps were on sale, so was tea and coffee and of course customers seated in First Class were entitled to free food and drink. The end of his speech however, shall stay in my mind for a long time. Our announcer concluded with these two words:
“Theng you”
Welcome to London! Sounds like when I heard the aliens speaking Gikuyu in that Stars Wars movie. Nearly jumped out of my seat 🙂
Back in the day Upton Park was known as Muranga town
At least there was nothing along the lines of ‘bei ya jioni’
That thengiuu, sounds so Gikuyulike. Karibu London and it is rude to ask, when am I seeing you? Looking forward to it. Mapenzi
ROTFLMBBAO!!!!!!
u know kiuks will have their prescence felt everywhere.
u should have felt warmth in ur heart and repried with a smile “wero-come!”