Ladies from South Africa - Introduce yourselves here!

Dear South African Ilites,

Greetings from Sunny Nairobi.

My name is alpa, am a gujrati born and brought up in Nairobi the 4th generation in Nairobi.

was very happy to read about you all.

Looking forward to hearing from you all.

Have a great day.

love from Nairobi
Alpa

Hi Alpha

Welcome to the club,your profile makes for very interesting reading.I see you have been one busy person.Your job sounds very interesting.Maybe you can tell us more about it.

Nairobi sounds interesting.I dont even know how far from Durban it is.
Glad to hear about you and exercise cos i am one of those too.

Enjoy and hope to hear more about your interesting life.

Tracey

Originally Posted by tracey

Hi Alpha

Welcome to the club,your profile makes for very interesting reading.I see you have been one busy person.Your job sounds very interesting.Maybe you can tell us more about it.

Nairobi sounds interesting.I dont even know how far from Durban it is.
Glad to hear about you and exercise cos i am one of those too.

Enjoy and hope to hear more about your interesting life.

Tracey

HI Tracey,

thank you for the Warm Welcome. Let me tell you something about my work, i sell the dye colour that is the raw materials togather with the chemicals, the customers buy these things from me then they dyecotton fabrics making designs by tieing the fabric or doing marbling, this TIE AND DYE is very famous in almost all african countries, it is done in smallscale and mostly by women, my work involves supportng chrch groups, NGO's, young ladies, street girls, single mothers, and others are trainined in this art of tie and dye thenthey make their own designs and dye the fabrics make long dresses to wear in summer they are called KAFTANS, majority of my clientile are women coming from poor backgrounds and NGO's who are training and funding certain women's group. this is a small scale cottage industry, i enjoy working with them and feel good that are doing something for themselves.

I just qualified as a Local Trainer and shall be soon registering with thew local training institute here in Nairobi and get a permission to train in companies. i cantrain from self development to customer satisfaction what ever the client wants.
Am not really busy but when you are single you have lot to do and i enjoy it.

I go to the gym everyday do aerobics mon and wed, step aerobic tue and thurs and circuit on fri. on sunday i do resistant training with my personal trainer to tone my body.

have a great day

alpa

Hi Alpha

Thanks for response,must say a day in the life of Alpha is interesting.You go girl,life is what you make of it.I truly admire you.keep well.

Tracey

Hi Ansuya

How are things there.Heard the new president address the people of South Africa,a very promising speech indeed.Just have to wait and see what happens in the coming months.
However that does not change our plans to move.


Tracey

Hello, Tracey

Things are just fine here, thanks. I didn't watch the new president's address but I did read a bit of it online. Let's hope he manages to undo some of the damage the ANC has done in the last few years. I was encouraged by the good words that Nelson Mandela said about Kgalema Motlanthe - it's not often that Mandela has spoken out in favour of ANC leaders in the recent past.

The most exciting news for me, though, was the inglorious exit of Manto Tshabalala-Msimang from the Dept of Health. I doubt that there is another person who has singlehandedly done as much damage to the health of the nation as that awful woman.

I'm glad to hear your plans to move are still on track. Perhaps once things settle down in SA, and we see some sort of improvement in the areas of health and crime, it will again become desirable and possible to lead a secure and fulfilling life there.

Ansuya

Hi Tracey,

thanks for the response and thank you for the compliments, am not busy at all, i always try to take out time and time for myself.

How have you been. I don't think there is a direct flight to Durban from Kenya but there is a direst flight from Nairobi to Jo'burg and to Capetown, it is a 5hr flight. i want to visit South Africa, was to come last yr for a conference in Sandton but could not make it due to work.

have a great day
love
alpa

Hi Alpha

I am not good today.I have had our family pet,Duke for 8years,got him when he was a few weeks old.He was not doing well recently,so i had to phone the dog clinic(SPCA).
They just fetched him an hour ago,i cried without my to boys seeing me do so.Duke was the only pet we ever had since we bough this house 8years ago.He started out as a pet
but soon had to be our security,cos things got bad in the area,like crime.


I will always love him and have so many good and bad memories of him.
I remember once he pushed me from behind ,he was very playful and used to jump like a horse.I hurt my buttock and it pained for a week.

If you decide to visit maybe we can meet,That would be lovely.
It would be nice to put a face to my newest friend but until then
keep well and be safe.

Tracey

Hi Ansuya

I am not good today.I have had our family pet,Duke for 8years,got him when he was a few weeks old.He was not doing well recently,so i had to phone the dog clinic(SPCA).
They just fetched him an hour ago,i cried without my to boys seeing me do so.Duke was the only pet we ever had since we bought this house 8years ago.

About Manto well all i can say is she finally got what was coming.Theres plenty of Manto jokes that go around.


Tomorrow is Eid Mubarak.My one friend,one cousin and one neighbor will celebrate.
Maybe that will take my mind off things.I spring cleaned the house yesterday,its amazing how much junk i got rid of.With 2 boys imagine the toys i had to throw.
Some were good so i kept to give away and clothes too.These boys are outgrowing things like you cannot believe.

That kept me very busy yesterday and today i am resting.Tomorrow my eldest and i
will go to gym,little one will stay with my aunt for a while.Thereafter will spent the day with my cousin who will celebrate eid.

Tracey






















Tracey