Thank you

There is nothing like a barefoot walk in a forest to reconnect with the Earth, balance your energies and find peace. For offering me that, Karura Forest, thank you.

Thank you for helping me find answers about life.
Thank you for being the steady force I could always count on.
Thank you for offering me peace and comfort when the world kept spinning around me.
Thank you for listening to my pains, my joys and my ills.
Thank you for being the beauty, calmness and power that you are.
Thank you for enabling me to keep my sanity in this mad and extraordinary city of Nairobi.

All these thank you’s are also dedicated to the extraordinary people that I have crossed path with on this beautiful continent. You have all been part of creating who I am today. Thank you. If you feel this might be you, please re-read my words above.

Today, I am leaving my footprints on the African soil that has shaped the last ten years of my life. With joy and melancholy, I am turning a page to start writing on a blank one. With excitement and fear, I am leaping into a world I am learning to love again.

This is not an Adieu, just an Au Revoir.

With love and gratitude,
Nina