Off we go. I explain my dilemma to the teacher in the front seat and he tells me no problem, take a seat.
Kenya Kenyan prosecutors have ordered the arrest of a school headmistress in the coastal city of Mombasa after a school bus ran over a six-year-old pupil who fell through an opening on the floor of the moving bus on Friday. Either the buffalo in front of me will move — hopefully not forward — and I can pass by them. I stop in my tracks, totally screwed.
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This presents a new challenge… African schoolchildren love to wave at foreigners and vice a versa but I have to communicate that this is not the average wave — I actually need help.
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With dense brush on either side of them. On the ten-minute ride back, the teacher explains to me how elections work in Kenya. You may also like.
More stories. The kids make room for me near the front. On the same subject. A school bus rounds the corner.
Is someone trying to kill me?! So using big gestures I throw my hands up in the air and swing them back and forth, and the bus comes to a halt.
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From the same country. A few minutes pass until I hear the noise of an engine not to far away.
The door opens and I climb on board, leaving my bike on the side of the road. My only option is to wait it out.