You're welcome.

Thanks for the rep!!

Thanks for the kitty rep!

thanks for the rep!

Hi there
What's he studying way over there if you don't mind me asking. Always wanted to go there, and New Zealand. Maybe someday

thanks for the rep mhk

Jambo! Heri ya Pasaka mhk! I hope you had a good weekend. Mimi sijambo. My weekend ended well because I was able to find a few copies of the Brandsaver, but it took a lot of work.

Maybe I have some coupons for you. I have too many and would love to send you some for the Maxx cat litter and Iams food and some others. I also have dog food coupons. I pick these things up as I'm searching for other coupons because I think that maybe I can give them to somebody sometime. I will send you a picture of the cat coupons in a personal message.

Let me know what you think. Take care and ciao 4 now.

Jambo! Wasemaje ndugu mhk? I hope you have been keeping well. Habari ya Brandsaver? Did you get yourself a copy? As you can probably guess, I am having to be very hodari to get myself one. And that is mzuri!

Jambo! Habari yako? Mzuri? Mimi si-jambo. Habari ya Shoppers Drugmart?

I am very excited to be here in Vancouver for the Olympics. We just don't know what is going to happen. The weather could be okay, or not. The flame might go out, or not. The protests might get messy, or not.

There is already so much starting to happen, especially with the "Cultural Olympiad". There is going to be art and dance and music and partying like we've never seen! I live downtown, just a 3 minute walk from the stadium on Robson Street. When I was out for a short walk tonight I had to stop three different times to give people directions. It's going to be crazy, but fun.

Like many people, I don't have tickets to any of the sports events but there will be so much to see and do besides that. I hope to get lots of pictures and will try to post them on the pictures thread in the Tea Room.

Now, how do you say goodbye in Kiswahili?

Take care and ciao 4 now.

Mimi = I
si-jambo = am well.
Kiswahili is very gramatically "dicfficult" in that different attachments to words mean different things. Like french too, when you would call an elderly person "vous" (niye in Kiswahili) instead of "tu" (wewe in Kiswahili). So sijambo means am well, but Yeye (he/she) si jambo (two words) would mean he/she is NOT well..... My kiswahili is getting rather rusty. Have not been a practising speaker since 1981 when I permanently moved to Canada.

Habari ya Vancouver translates to Whats the NEWS (habari) of Vancouver, so you were spot on!!

"Wet, green and cold." ... so that is ( I forget what wet is now....) kijani (green) na baridi (cold).

Are you looking forward to the Olympics?

Mimi sijambo! Actually, I don't speak Kiswahili, yet. I just picked that little bit up from your post on the SDM Optimizing thread. I thought it was so neat that somebody would use that expression ("...like Swahili to me!") and then get an immediate response from a Swahili Canadian! What a country!

I'm sure there was no offense intended as it's like saying "It sounds like Greek to me!".

You said: "Mimi sijambo. Habari ya Vancouver?"

Let me guess... that means something like "Very nice hello. How is Vancouver?"...?

My answer would be "Wet, green and cold." ...but not as cold as most of the rest of Canada!

Wow! My sister still keeps in touch with some of her friends there. Maybe she even knows them!! ha ha. Would you mind sharing the name? This is getting so interesting. I would love to go back and visit, but I am kind of scared with the thefts and stories I hear. Nairobi (Kenya) is supposed to be more dangerous though!~ I hear Arusha has changed a lot. A friend of my sisters was telling her that there is a mall and stuff there. In my day, nothing was there. Maybe a small supermarket and few mom and pop stores and the Sokoni (open air market). My Dad used to own a restaurant there, and we used to live across from the Safari Hotel where my Mum tells me John Wayne stayed whilst Hatari was being filmed. Sigh - Good times!

I know they visited Arusha,Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti National Park. I am pretty sure they also went to Mt Kilimanjaro.

My daughter's husband has family is Arusha and they own some high end resorts there.

Actually I don't. My son and daughter in law lived in Dar es Salaam for 2 years and I learned a few words. Not much to survive on though

Left an envelope for you at the depot & just did a trade rating. Thanks a bunch! I've been there before - one of the fellas is pretty good @ flipping bottles like a bartender!

hehe thanks!! he's my little furbaby lol

Hi ~ I just left you your first Trade rating! Thanks for the awesome trade!