10,000-year History of Marijuana use in the World

8,000+ BCE Use of hemp cord in pottery identified at ancient village site dating back over 10,000 years, located in the area of modern day Taiwan. Finding hemp use and cultivation in this date range puts it as one of the first and oldest known human agriculture crops. As explained by Richard Hamilton in the 2009 Scientific American article on sustainable agriculture "Modern humans emerged some 250,000 years ago, yet agriculture is a fairly recent invention, only about 10,000 years old ... Agriculture is not natural; it is a human invention. It is also the basis of modern civilization." This point was also touched on by Carl Sagan in 1977 when he proposed the possibility that marijuana may have actually been world's first agricultural crop, leading to the development of civilization itself (see 1977, below).
6,000 BCE Cannabis seeds and oil used for food in China.
4,000 BCE Textiles made of hemp are used in China and Turkestan.
2,737 BCE First recorded use of cannabis as medicine by Emperor Shen Neng of China.
2,000-800 BCE Bhang (dried cannabis leaves, seeds and stems) is mentioned in the Hindu sacred text Atharvaveda (Science of Charms) as "Sacred Grass", one of the five sacred plants of India. It is used by medicinally and ritually as an offering to Shiva.
1,500 BCE Cannabis cultivated in China for food and fibre. Scythians cultivate cannabis and use it to weave fine hemp cloth.
700-600 BCE the Zoroastrian Zend-Avesta, an ancient Persian religious text of several hundred volumes refers to bhang as the "good narcotic."
600 BCE Hemp rope appears in southern Russia.
700-300 BCE Scythian tribes leave Cannabis seeds as offerings in royal tombs.
430 BCE Herodotus reports on both ritual and recreation use of Cannabis by the Scythians (Herodotus the Histories 430 B.C. trans. G. Rawlinson).
200 BCE Hemp rope appears in Greece. Chinese Book of Rites mentions hemp fabric.
100 BCE First evidence of hemp paper, invented in China.
100-0 BCE the psychotropic properties of Cannabis are mentioned in the newly compiled herbal Pen Ts'ao Ching.
23-79 Pliny the Elder's The Natural History mentions hemp rope and marijuana's analgesic effects.
47-127 Plutarch mentions Thracians using cannabis as an intoxicant.
70 Dioscorides, a physician in Nero's army, lists medical marijuana in his Pharmacopoeia.
130-200 Greek physician Galen prescribes medical marijuana.
200 First pharmacopoeia of the East lists medical marijuana. Chinese surgeon Hua T'o uses marijuana as an anaesthetic.
300 A young woman in Jerusalem receives medical marijuana during childbirth.
500-600 The Jewish Talmud mentions the euphoriant properties of Cannabis.
900-1000 Scholars debate the pros and cons of eating hashish. Use spreads throughout Arabia.
1000 Arabic physician Ibn Wahshiyah's On Poisons warns of marijuana's potential dangers.
1090-1124 In Khorasan, Persia, Hasan ibn al-Sabbah, recruits followers to commit assassinations...legends develop around their supposed use of hashish. These legends are some of the earliest written tales of the discovery of the inebriating powers of Cannabis and the use of Hashish by a paramilitary organization as a hypnotic. Early 12th Century Hashish smoking becomes very popular throughout the Middle East.
1155-1221 Persian legend of the Sufi master Sheik Haydar's personal discovery of Cannabis and his own alleged invention of hashish with its subsequent spread to Iraq, Bahrain, Egypt and Syria. Another of the earliest written narratives of the use of Cannabis as an inebriant.
1200 1,001 Nights, an Arabian collection of tales, describes hashish's intoxicating and aphrodisiac properties.
13th Century The oldest monograph on hashish, Zahr al-'arish fi tahrim al-hashish, was written. It has since been lost. Ibn al-Baytar of Spain provides a description of the psychoactive nature of Cannabis. Arab traders bring Cannabis to the Mozambique coast of Africa.
1271-1295 Journeys of Marco Polo in which he gives second-hand reports of the story of Hasan ibn al-Sabbah and his "assassins" using hashish. First time reports of Cannabis have been brought to the attention of Europe.
1378 Ottoman Emir Soudoun Scheikhouni issues one of the first edicts against the eating of hashish.
1532 French physician Rabelais's gargantua and Pantagruel mentions marijuana's medicinal effects.
1533 King Henry VIII fines farmers if they do not raise hemp for industrial use.
1549 Angolan slaves brought cannabis with them to the sugar plantations of north-eastern Brazil. They were permitted to plant their cannabis between rows of cane, and to smoke it between harvests.
1550 The epic poem, Benk u Bode, by the poet Mohammed Ebn Soleiman Foruli of Baghdad, deals allegorically with a dialectical battle between wine and hashish.
1563 Portuguese physician Garcia da Orta reports on marijuana's medicinal effects.
1578 China's Li Shih-Chen writes of the antibiotic and antiemetic effects of marijuana.
1600 England begins to import hemp from Russia.
1606-1632 French and British cultivate Cannabis for hemp at their colonies in Port Royal (1606), Virginia (1611), and Plymouth (1632).
1621 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy suggests marijuana may treat depression.
1600-1700 Use of hashish, alcohol, and opium spreads among the population of occupied Constantinople. Hashish becomes a major trade item between Central Asia and South Asia.
1753 Linnaeus classifies Cannabis sativa.
1764 Medical marijuana appears in The New England Dispensatory.
1794 Medical marijuana appears in The Edinburgh New Dispensary.
1798 Napoleon discovers that much of the Egyptian lower class habitually uses hashish. Soldiers returning to France bring the tradition with them, and he declares a total prohibition.
1809 Antoine Sylvestre de Sacy, a leading Arabist, suggests a base etymology between the words "assassin" and "hashishin" -- subsequent linguest study disproves his theory.
1840 In America, medicinal preparations with a Cannabis base are available. Hashish is available in Persian pharmacies.
1842 Irish physician O'Shaughnessy publishes cannabis research in English medical journals.
1846 French physician Moreau publishes Hashish and Mental Illness
1850 Cannabis is added to The U.S. Pharmacopoeia.
1850-1915 Marijuana was widely used throughout United States as a medicinal drug and could easily be purchased in pharmacies and general stores.
1854 Whittier writes the first American work to mention cannabis as an intoxicant.
1856 British tax "ganja" and "charas" trade in India.
1890 Greek Department of Interior prohibits importance, cultivation and use of hashish. Hashish is made illegal in Turkey. Sir J.R. Reynolds, chief physician to Queen Victoria, prescribes medical marijuana to her.
1893-1894 The India Hemp Drugs Commission Report is issued. 70,000 to 80,000 kg per year of hashish is legally imported into India from Central Asia.
1906 In the U.S. the Pure Food and Drug Act is passed, regulating the labeling of products containing Alcohol, Opiates, Cocaine, and Cannabis, among others.
1910 The Mexican Revolution caused an influx of Mexican immigrants who introduced the habit of recreational use (instead of it's generally medicinal use) into American society.
1914 The Harrison Act in the U.S. defined use of Marijuana (among other drugs) as a crime.
1915-1927 In the U.S. cannabis begins to be prohibited for nonmedical use. Prohibition first begins in California (1915), followed by Texas (1919), Louisiana (1924), and New York (1927).
1924 Russian botanists classify another major strain of the plant, Cannabis ruderalis.
1936 The American propaganda film Reefer Madness was made to scare American youth away from
1941 Cannabis is removed from the U.S. Pharmacopoeia and it's medicinal use is no longer recognized in America. The same year the Indian government considers cultivation in Kashmir to fill void of hashish from Chinese Turkestan. Hand-rubbed charas from Nepal is choicest hashish in India during World War II.
1960 Czech researchers confirm the antibiotic and analgesic effects of cannabis.
1965 First reports of the strain Cannibis afghanica and was used for hashish production in northern Afghanistan.
1967 "Smash", the first hashish oil appears. Red Lebanese reaches California.
1971 First evidence suggesting marijuana may help glaucoma patients.
1975 Nabilone, a cannabinoid-based medication appears.
1977 Carl Sagan proposes that marijuana may have been the world's first agricultural crop, leading to the development of civilization itself: "It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization." Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden, Speculations on the Origin of Human Intelligence p 191 footnote.
1995 Introduction of hashish-making equipment and appearance of locally produced hashish in Amsterdam coffee shops.
1996 California (the first U.S. state to ban marijuana use, see 1915) became the first U.S. State to then re-legalize medical marijuana use for people suffering from AIDS, cancer, and other serious illnesses. A similar bill was passed in Arizona the same year. This was followed by the passage of similar initiatives in Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Washington D.C., Hawaii, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

THE TICKING TIME BOMB

History keeps rewriting itself, as they say, but it also keeps repeating itself. Man is supposed to learn from history and create a better world. It is evident that, that is not what is happening. We keep repeating the mistakes of our ancestors and causing the same problems we are trying to solve come back again. Each time they reappear we do realize after it has become worse.
A child is a treasure and a gift from the Almighty. A boy or a girl they are all children and both should be treated with equality. It is a pity that most lobby groups fighting for children rights focus on one child, the girl child. It is true that the girl child has been neglected for years and need to be considered, but does that mean we forget the boy child? The reality is that in years to come the boy child will be in the same position the girl child was years back.
In rural areas more and more boys are dropping out of school due to the environment around them. After this no one cares or bothers about them simply because they are "men". The statement "atajipanga si ni mwanaume" (he can sort himself isn't he a man) is now widely misused by the society. This means if a boy has a problem he is simply not man enough.
We basically believe that the boy child is the stronger sex but the opposite is the fact. Realities will only dawn on us if we look at the mortality rate of boys since conception to the age of five. The difference in the ratio at conception and that at adult hood is alarming.
I am in no way suggesting we go back to the old ways of neglecting the girl child so that we "pamper" the boy child. What am simply saying is that we should equally treat both children. Give them equal chances of survival.
In campuses the population of ladies is getting greater than that of men in at a large rate simply because the cutoff points tend to favor them. Statistics show that the number of women students entering Kenyan universities rose at the fastest rate ever – by more than 30% – last year, and for the first time there are more than 100,000 female students in higher education, new government data show. Kenya’s recently released Economic Survey 2013, a document that tracks annual economic data across all sectors, showed that there were some 105,115 female students enrolled in universities in 2012, up from 80,560 the year before. This highlighted a trend over the past five years that has seen female enrolment rise faster than that of males, whose number rose by 15% – half the growth rate of women – from 117,700 in 2011 to 135,436 last year. The high number of female candidates seeking places in universities was replicated in primary schools, where more girls than boys are enrolled. The rate for girls increased by 1.6% from 4.8 million in 2011 to 4.9 million last year, while that of boys grew by just 0.7% from 4.9 million to five million. It is not fair for a lady with 61 points to join campus while a boy with the same potential; with the same points to be locked out just because the cutoff for the boys is at 64 points.
We should not create mechanisms that only favor one side because with time we will have to go back to the drawing board to create a mechanism that will try to reverse what we have done.
Fighting for the rights of girl child is a very noble course but protecting the rights for both children is the best thing we can ever do.

General common knowledge.

Warn ur girl child never to sit on
anyone's laps no matter the situation
including uncles.
Avoid getting dressed in front of ur
child once he/she is 2yrs old. Learn to
excuse urself.
If u have to hire a house-help please
kindly take them 4 HIV screening to
determine their HIV status, properly
interview them & make up ur mind to
treat them well.
Never allow any adult refer to ur new
born as 'my wife' or 'my husband'.
Never tempt ur husband with ur
younger sister.....there should be no
foolish play or secret jokes btw
them.....let there be boundaries(Else
he'd say it's her's & the devil's fault)
Avoid unnecessary familiarity btw ur
husband and ur friends. & make sure u
take care of ur husband by urself lest
you lead him into temptation.
Whenever ur child goes out to play
with friends make sure you look for a
way to find out what kind of play they
played together because young people
now sexually abuses themselves.
Never force ur child to visit any adult
he or she is not comfortable with &
also be observant if your child
becomes too fond of a particular adult.
Once a very lively child suddenly
becomes withdrawn you might need to
patiently ask a lot of questions from ur
child.
If u don't teach ur children about sex,
the society will teach them the wrong
values.....get ur head out of the clouds
& tightened ur belt......tell them the
proper names of their organs (penis,
vagina, breasts) do it mom/dad before
friends, neighbors and classmates
helps you...
It is always advisable you go through
any new material like cartoons u just
bought for them b4 they start to watch
them.....a lot of videos are recycled
Teach your 3yr olds how to wash their
private parts properly & warn them
never 2 allow anyone touch those
areas & dat includes u.
remember, charity begins at home &
with u
Blacklist some materials u think could
threaten the sanity once ur child
complains about a person try & tackle
the issue once & 4 all. The business of
raising a child is not easy.

Dictionary Of Dating

Attraction-The act of associating horniness with a particular person.

Love at first sight-What occurs when two extremely horny, but not entirely choosy people meet.

Dating-The process of spending enormous amounts of money, time and energy to get better acquainted with a person whom you don’t especially like in the present and will learn to like a lot less in the future.

Birth control-Avoiding pregnancy through such tactics as swallowing special pills, inserting a diaphragm, using a condom, and dating repulsive men.

Easy-A term used to describe a woman who has the s*xual morals of a man.

Eye contact-A method utilized by one person to indicate that they are interested in another. Despite being advised to do so, many men have difficulty looking a woman directly in the eyes, not necessarily due to shyness, but usually due to the fact that a woman’s eyes are not located in her chest.

Friend-A person in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.

Indifference-A woman’s feeling towards a man, which is interpreted by the man to be “playing hard to get”.

Interesting-A word a man uses to describe a woman who lets him do all the talking.

Irritating habit-What the endearing little qualities that initially attract two people to each other turn into after a few months together.

Law of relativity-How attractive a given person appears to be is directly proportionate to how unattractive your date is.

Nymphomaniac-A man’s term for a woman who wants to have s*x more often than he does.

Sober-Condition in which it is almost impossible to fall in love.

How we slowly kill love with ego

Both are quiet but have hundreds of things running in the mind.. both are missing each-other badly but want the other one to initiate the conversation.. both want to be with each other, to fight, to argue, to show love, but would pretend that they are fine without each-other.. both want to meet each-other, but will not say anything and wait silently.. they would send each-other silly text messages but would not tell that
''Stupid I am Missing U"
This is how we percieve love.. sometimes we miss out on most loveable moments just because we want the other one to take the first step. Showing love might improve the situation but showing ego definitely ruins it. . .

You got to choose

Because there are things we feel but
cannot express them, and because there
are people we love but cannot let them
know, and because sometimes we accept
what we have rather than go for what we
truly deserve; only human beings of all
animals have learned to cry. Because we
have places to go, and because we want to
get there fast, and because we elect the
path of less resistance, we have such moral
bends and twists and corners; for it is the
path of less resistance that is responsible
for twisted rivers. Because we want the
best for ourselves, and consolidate more
than what we truly need for our need, only
human beings suffer obesity. In nature,
animals eat just what is enough. I have
never seen a wild thing that suffered from
obesity. A fly goes about its life, unaware
of the power of Mortein Doom. A mosquito
sings even as it comes to boldly siphon our
blood, completely unaware that it could be
swatted off in an instant. No, nature has
no self-pity or esteem or ego issues. Only
human beings suffer such abominations.
And perhaps that is why it has been said
that human beings have the power to be
higher than angels or lower than animals.
So where are we? Higher than angels or
lower than animals? You choose.

This is a story i had to share.

I have always been fascinated by the dynamics of relationships and the thinking of couples. I came across this story n i loved it alot. I surely can't rest before i share it.

Let's say a guy named Mwangi is
attracted to a woman
named Njambi. He asks her out to a
movie, she accepts; they have a
pretty good time. A few nights later
he asks her out to dinner, and again
they enjoy themselves.
They continue to see each other
regularly, and after a while neither
one of them is seeing anybody else.
And then, one evening when they're
driving home, a thought occurs to
Njambi, and, without really thinking,
she says it aloud, "Do you
realize that, as of tonight, we've
been seeing each other for exactly
six months?"
And then there is silence in the car.
To Njambi, it seems like a very loud
silence. She thinks to herself, "Ngai!
I wonder if it bothers him that I
said that. Maybe he's been feeling
confined by our
relationship; maybe he thinks I'm
trying to push him into some kind of
obligation that he doesn't want, or
isn't sure of."
And Mwangi is thinking, "Ngoma! Six
months!"
And Njambi is thinking, "But, hey,
I'm not so sure I want this kind of
relationship, either. Sometimes I
wish I had a little more space, so
I'd have time to think about
whether I really want us to keep
going the way we are, moving
steadily toward...I mean, where are
we going?
Are we just going to keep seeing
each other at this level of
intimacy?
Are we heading toward marriage?
Toward children?
Toward a lifetime together? Am I
ready for that level of commitment?
Do I really even know this person?"
And Mwangi is thinking, "...so that
means it was...let's see...February
when we started going out, which
was right after I had the car at the
garage, which means...let me check
the odometer...Whoa!
I am way overdue for an oil change
here."
And Njambi is thinking, "He's upset.
I can see it on his face.
Maybe I'm reading this completely
wrong. Maybe he wants more from
our relationship, more intimacy, and
more commitment; maybe he has
sensed....even before I sensed
it...that I was feeling some
reservations. Yes, I bet that's it.
That's why he's so reluctant to say
anything about his own feelings.
He's afraid of being rejected."
And Mwangi is thinking, "And I'm
going to have them look at the
clutch again. I don't care what those
Nugus say, it's still not engaging
right.
And they better not try to blame it
on the cold weather this time.
What cold weather? It's 18degrees
outside, and this thing is shifting
like a chokora garbage truck, and I
paid those incompetent thieves
12,000 bob!"
And Njambi is thinking, "He's angry.
And I don't blame him. I'd be angry,
too. Ngai! I feel so guilty, putting
him through this, but I can't help
the way I feel. I'm just not sure."
And Mwangi is thinking, "They'll
probably say it's only a 90-day
warranty. That's exactly what they're
going to say, the nyangaus."
And Njambi is thinking, "Maybe I'm
just too idealistic, waiting for a
knight to come riding up on his
white horse, when I'm sitting right
next to a perfectly good person, a
person I enjoy being with, a person
I truly do care about, and a person
who seems to truly care about me.
A person who is in pain because of
my self-centered, schoolgirl romantic
fantasy."
And Mwangi is thinking, "Warranty?
They want a warranty I'll give them
a bloody warranty. I'll take their
warranty and stick it right up
their..."
"Mwangi," Njambi says aloud.
"What?" asks Mwangi, startled.
"Please don't torture yourself like
this," she says, her eyes
beginning to brim with tears.
"Maybe I should never have...Ngai, I
feel so..." She breaks down, sobbing.
"What?" says Mwangi.
"I'm such a fool," Njambi sobs. "I
mean, I know there's no knight. I
really know that. It's silly. There's
no knight, and there's no horse."
"There's no horse?" says Mwangi..
"You think I'm a fool, don't you?"
Njambi says.
"No!" says Mwangi, glad to finally
know the correct answer.
"It's just that...It's that I...I need
some time," Njambi says.
There is a 15-second pause while
Mwangi, thinking as fast as he can,
tries to come up with a safe
response. Finally he comes up with
one that he thinks might work.
"Yes," he says.
Njambi, deeply moved, touches his
hand. "Oh, Mwangi, do you really
feel that way?" she says.
"What way?" says Mwangi.
"That way about time," says Njambi.
"Oh," says Mwangi. "Yes."
Njambi turns to face him and gazes
deeply into his eyes, causing him to
become very nervous about what she
might say next, especially if it
involves a horse.
At last she speaks. "Thank you,
Mwangi," she says.
"Thank you," says Mwangi.
Then he takes her home, and she
lies on her bed, a conflicted,
tortured soul, and weeps until dawn,
whereas when Mwangi gets back to
his place, he opens a bag of crisps,
turns on the TV, and immediately
becomes deeply involved in a rerun
of a tennis match between two
Czechoslovakians he never heard of,
as he awaits the big match of the
day between MAN-U and STOKE CITY
A tiny voice in the far recesses
of his mind tells him that something
major was going on back there in
the car, but he is pretty sure there
is no way he would ever understand
what, and so he figures it's better if
he doesn't think about it... (This is
also Mwangi's policy regarding world
hunger)
The next day Njambi will call her
closest friend, or perhaps two of
them, and they will talk about this
situation for six straight hours.
In painstaking detail, they will
analyze everything she said and
everything he said, going over it
time and time again, exploring every
word, expression, and gesture for
nuances of meaning, considering
every possible ramification. They will
continue to discuss this subject, off
and on, for weeks, maybe months,
never reaching any definite
conclusions, but never getting bored
with it, either.
Meanwhile, Mwangi, while playing
Pool table one day with a mutual
friend of his and Njambi's will pause
just before serving, frown, and say,
"Kamau, did Njambi ever own a
horse??"

Believe me the world is unfair

If this isn't cruelty and a violation of the fundamental right of expression then definitely it is a form of torture. The word used to describe the fear of long words is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. The name also happens to be extra long, I wonder how someone is expected to say he/she has the above condition.

A couple of phobias you never heard off.

Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or
bathing.
Androphobia- Fear of men.
Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying
single.
Arrhenphobia- Fear of men.
Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
Cacophobia-Fear of ugliness.
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful
women.
Chorophobia- Fear of dancing.
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia-
Fear of money.
Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed.
Coitophobia- Fear of coitus.
Decidophobia-Fear of making
decisions.
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to
school.
Dishabiliophobia- Fear of undressing
in front of someone.
Ecclesiophobia-Fear of church.
Ecophobia- Fear of home.
Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.
Ergophobia- Fear of work.
Erotophobia- Fear of sexual love or
sexual questions.
Euphobia- Fear of hearing good
news.
Gamophobia- Fear of marriage.
Genophobia- Fear of sex.
Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old.
Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge.
Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of
women.
Hadephobia-Fear of hell.
Hamartophobia- Fear of sinning.
Heterophobia- Fear of the opposite
sex. (Sexophobia)
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedalio
phobia- Fear of long words.
Homophobia- Fear of sameness,
monotony or of homosexuality or of
becoming
homosexual.
Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.
Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being
alone.
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing,
thinking about or having an erect
penis.
Kleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
Lockiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
Logophobia- Fear of words.
Mageirocophobia- Fear of cooking.
Maieusiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
Medomalacuphobia- Fear of losing
an erection.
Medorthophobia- Fear of an erect
penis.
Megalophobia- Fear of large things.
Menophobia- Fear of menstruation.
Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
Oneirogmophobia- Fear of wet
dreams.
Ouranophobia or Uranophobia- Fear
of heaven.
Parthenophobia- Fear of virgins or
young girls.
Peniaphobia- Fear of poverty.
Phallophobia- Fear of a penis, esp
erect.
Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.
Plutophobia- Fear of wealth.
Satanophobia- Fear of Satan.
Scolionophobia- Fear of school.
Sexophobia- Fear of the opposite
sex. (Heterophobia)
Sophophobia- Fear of learning.
Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia- Fear of
hell.
Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful
women.
Verbophobia- Fear of words.
Vestiphobia- Fear of clothing.
Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape.

Wrong start for me.

I wake up like any other ordinary day only to realize am already 5 minutes late for work. Being a Monday I am full of the weekend hangovers and can barely open my eyes as I get out of bed. This is the worst way to start a day and even the week. In a frantic frenzy I begin to prepare myself for the mammoth task ahead. Donned complete in a suit I and a tie I head off to work hurriedly only to remember I have not taken breakfast at the office gate. Generally the compound is silent and there is little activity. I am surprised because the office is always a buzz of activities and I wonder why the today is different. I slowly walk to the office to meet with my supervisor an d report for duty. On my way in everyone stares at me heavily, I can almost feel their eyes pierce my skin. This is odd for I have walked into this office almost daily for the last one month without the stares. I brush that of as I concentrate on the work ahead. I expect to meet one of my clients who I had given an appointment for the morning. The supervisor, a soft spoken and funny character, ushers me into his office and after the casual greeting we head straight to business. I ask to see my client at this statement he laughs out loud and starts making a joke "kwani wewe unaishi Kenya gain"(which country do u live) I innocently ask why only for him to laugh harder pointing it to me that it's a public holiday and there's no work today. In dismay and disappointment I laugh at my ignorance making the situation funnier. After a short conversation I live the office and head home. I kick off the week on the wrong the foot and I hope to align my self to the week as it progresses.