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Hujambo (Hello), I Hope You Enjoyed The Safari

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From the lens A Childhood in Africa.

  • iWrite4 May 20, 2012 @ 10:51 am | delete
    I love afrikan style of living. thanks for sharing informations.
  • TLC33 May 11, 2012 @ 6:45 am | delete
    This is amazing. You sure had a fascinating childhood in an interesting country.
  • SoundFinance Apr 17, 2012 @ 6:14 pm | delete
    I too grew up in Africa...Rhodesia as it was then now Zimbabwe. I remember the flying ants very vividly. They just swarmed the street lights in hundreds!
  • favored1 Apr 12, 2012 @ 8:57 pm | delete
    You have presented this really well. I have enjoyed learning about your childhood. This would have gone over well with my students when we studied parts of Africa. Blessed.
  • ---Chazz Apr 8, 2012 @ 9:41 pm | delete
    This should be a book instead of a lens! Wow. I am impressed and this lens is duly blessed. Also added to my "Wing-ing it on Squidoo" lens. thank you for a wonderful read -- I learned a lot.
  • sousababy Apr 1, 2012 @ 12:05 pm | delete
    Fabulous . . felt like I was there. Thank you for sharing your childhood and the quotes were wonderful.
  • Chinajoy Mar 31, 2012 @ 2:42 am | delete
    An amazing lens! Thanks.
  • sherioz Mar 26, 2012 @ 5:19 pm | delete
    This is an amazing lens. So thorough and covering so much "territory". Glad to be invited down your memory lane.
  • JoshK47 Mar 23, 2012 @ 9:24 am | delete
    Coming back through to bless this wonderful tale. Thanks again for sharing!
  • siobhanryan Mar 21, 2012 @ 10:22 pm | delete
    Amazing,Spellbinding, Enchanting-need I say more--and a bit of romance for good measure.
  • Upon-Request Mar 21, 2012 @ 10:43 am | delete
    Hujambo :) What a fascinating way to spend a childhood. Love the proverbs!
  • Michelle1959 Mar 19, 2012 @ 12:04 pm | delete
    A particularly enjoyable lens with an abundance of information - growing up in Africa is really something so special.
  • Spook Mar 18, 2012 @ 2:04 pm | delete
    Excellent lens and lovely read.
  • WriterJanis Mar 18, 2012 @ 3:53 am | delete
    What a wonderful lens! It deserves a Squid Angel blessing!
  • Squidoo_Chick Mar 17, 2012 @ 9:31 pm | delete
    A friend of mine also grew up in Africa and he always speaks of it fondly
  • raphaelo Mar 17, 2012 @ 7:33 pm | delete
    So wonderful lens with beautiful story of you. I'm so happy to be here :) Have wonderful times.. always.. Rob :D
  • Lauriej1 Mar 16, 2012 @ 1:44 pm | delete
    Wow!! It looks like you had a very eventful childhood!! I loved the pictures, stories, and proverbs! Thanks for sharing!!
  • MelonyVaughan Mar 15, 2012 @ 8:00 pm | delete
    What a beautiful lens! It is so refreshing to look at the past through someone's family photos. You are a very talented story-teller. Bravo!
  • mamabush Mar 13, 2012 @ 4:43 pm | delete
    What an amazing experience to grow up in Kenya! The pictures here are absolutely beautiful. I bet you could have done without the spitting cobra, though, huh? :) Blessed!
  • SafariGirl Feb 29, 2012 @ 12:55 pm | delete
    What a lovely lens! A great friend of mine grew up in Kenya too - she's had an amazing upbringing with the wild animals living all around her Tsavo home. I've visited her many times and envy her exciting life. I'm actually trying to persuade her to sign up to Squidoo and create a lens about her African childhood - that would make a good partner lens to this one! In the meantime, I live vicariously through her Kenyan Wilderness Diary blog.
  • Einar_A Feb 26, 2012 @ 6:23 pm | delete
    I so much enjoyed reading of your childhood in Kenya! Thank you.
  • LaraineRose Feb 24, 2012 @ 4:43 am | delete
    One of the best lenses I have ever read. Love the way you have constructed it with photos illustrating your stories. This will get my next purple star. Angel blessed.
  • brettkun Feb 14, 2012 @ 10:17 pm | delete
    Terrific Lens. Great stories. I especially like the proverbs. When I was learning the Japanese language and culture when I lived there, I studied their proverbs to understand their beliefs.
  • vallain Feb 12, 2012 @ 9:23 am | delete
    I'm back to read your memories once again. Lovely.
    Blessed by a Squid Angel.
  • TravelDiaries Feb 11, 2012 @ 2:08 pm | delete
    Amazing lens, great pictures, interesting story...what an amazing childhood.
    One of the best lens I have read.
    Thanks for sharing.
  • jeremykim2011 Jan 29, 2012 @ 12:42 am | delete
    Lots of beautiful sights!
  • Brite-Ideas Jan 27, 2012 @ 3:36 pm | delete
    This is a terrific lens, your upbringing is so interesting!
  • crstnblue Jan 15, 2012 @ 8:16 am | delete
    Wonderful lens! Very informative, complex and thoughtful.
    Thanks for giving a chance to learn something new today!
  • Angel_Lou Jan 13, 2012 @ 8:28 am | delete
    Marvelous lens! I enjoyed reading it!!!
  • Vallygems1 Dec 27, 2011 @ 6:47 am | delete
    Great Lens. My family is from Tanzania and I was born in Arusha. My late father Tony Stylianou was at school at Prince of Wales in Nairobi. I love that part of the world and thank you for sharing . You may have inspired me to write a lens about our family and the time we spent in East Africa.
    Warm Regards
    Chris
  • Irenemaria Nov 27, 2011 @ 11:29 am | delete
    This lens is fantastic. A love song to Kenya and full of personal comments and photos. I thank you for the sight seeing through the country. Blessed!
  • creativeinc Nov 15, 2011 @ 11:54 am | delete
    I enjoyed it thoroughly! It must be great to grow up in Africa!!!
  • JoshK47 Nov 15, 2011 @ 11:38 am | delete
    Quite a magnificent experience you've shared here! Thanks so much - blessed by a SquidAngel.
  • flycatcher Nov 8, 2011 @ 11:40 am | delete
    What a fascinating lens! I love the animal photographs, and those black-and-white snaps from your childhood, of course, but what really caught me here were the pictures of those lovely Masai women, so naturally elegant, and such beautiful colourful clothing. Thanks for a wonderful voyage!
  • Tony Oct 14, 2011 @ 9:25 am | delete
    Hello, Somehow I stumbled on your lens, and just want to say that I too was brought up on a farm in Kitale so your stories are very familiar including the eating of flying ants (termites). Our farm was right on the Elgon forest boundary to the South of the bluff. After my father died in about 1963 my mother managed the Endebess club for a while then managed the Highlands hotel in Molo then moved to Malindi. I went to the Kitale school and just attended the 80 year reunion last year. Amazing how so many ex Kitale folk still have fond memories of life in the region. ahalahan@pt.lu
  • mattseefood May 6, 2011 @ 4:42 am | delete
    Thanks for sharing your life with us :)
  • pheonix76 Apr 30, 2011 @ 12:33 pm | delete
    Hujambo! This is an outstanding lens!! You are an excellent story-teller. It sounds like you had a very special and unique childhood, what an amazing place to grow up. I really enjoyed reading all about your adventures. Thank you very much for sharing this with us!
  • sushilkin Apr 25, 2011 @ 6:53 am | delete
    Nice lens thanks for sharing...
  • ArtByLinda Apr 21, 2011 @ 11:35 am | delete
    Hujambo to you too! I am so glad that spitting python didn't get your father. What an amazing lens you have here. So much unique stories, information and beautiful photos. Blessing this lens and featuring it on my Wildlife photography blessings page.
  • JRLSolutions Apr 21, 2011 @ 9:03 am | delete
    Beautiful and awe-inspiring lens. I hope this helps others to realize too that being a technological society doesn't exactly make us 'advanced' on a human scale. In fact, perhaps singing while bent at a 45 degree angle all day, makes you far more advanced then grumbling when you have to pick up after yourself.
  • vallain Apr 20, 2011 @ 10:40 pm | delete
    I'm always fascinated to peek into others childhood memories. Yours are pretty unique. Excellent presentation.
  • TheWhistler Apr 17, 2011 @ 3:37 pm | delete
    Sounds like and exciting and interesting childhood.
  • Cajean Apr 12, 2011 @ 12:53 pm | delete
    Beautiful Lens and amazing photos! Thanks for sharing your childhood stories too, makes it so real. I've been to SA and Malawi, maybe will one day see Kenya and Tanzania. Keep up the good work!
  • TheTravelGal Mar 30, 2011 @ 1:21 pm | delete
    Enjoyed your lens. I lived in Kenya, different era. 1970-1990. Things had changed, but a lot had also stayed the same.
  • poutine Jan 4, 2011 @ 3:26 pm | delete
    I really enjoyed reading your lens and looking at those colorful photos of Africa.

    Superb lens.

    Worth a Purple Star.
  • Mujjen Dec 30, 2010 @ 1:13 pm | delete
    Asante, very nice lens! I lived in Africa some 50 years later, but some things have not changed!
  • biDo Dec 26, 2010 @ 8:05 am | delete
    Thanks
  • Demaw Apr 8, 2010 @ 10:09 am | delete
    Very interesting and informational lens on your Kenyan childhood.
  • susannaduffy Sep 7, 2009 @ 1:31 am | delete
    This is just wonderful! Blessed by a Squid Angel today. (squidoo.com/september-blessings )
  • TLC33 Jul 27, 2009 @ 7:27 am | delete
    You had such an interesting childhood, and so many amazing stories. This lens is just full of fabulous information especially the proverbs. Well done and 5 ***** from me!
  • AppalachianCountry Jul 21, 2009 @ 9:53 am | delete
    Thank-you for sharing this wonderful lens. It sounds like you had an awesome Momma &
    Poppa. We have never had to worry about monkeys in the garden. Also, really enjoyed the proverbs. 5 stars*****
  • Anne May 19, 2009 @ 2:08 am | delete
    Hi Robert......This is your cousin Anne. You have awakened my menories of our wonderful childhood in Kenya. Our farm was similar to yours and the trips to the coast were the best holidays ever! Weren't we privilaged to grow up in such a wonderful place.
  • enslavedbyfaeries Apr 26, 2009 @ 11:26 pm | delete
    This is an absolutely fascinating lens! It was a real pleasure reading about your childhood. I've actually had nightmares similar to your experience with the python under the carpet. Thanks so much for sharing your amazing photos, memories and more about the culture and life in Africa.
  • mulberry Apr 12, 2009 @ 2:47 pm | delete
    Wow, you had some interesting experiences. Looks like a great way to grow up actually!
  • chefkeem Apr 9, 2009 @ 11:28 am | delete
    Fascinating trip! Blessed by a Squid Angel today. :)

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