August 5th, 2006

It's getting closer to the end of the season, and I'm spending every siku at the pool.
I didn't go to the pool once all summer, so my bathing suit is kind of small. But bathing suits expand once wewe get into the water, right?
Whatever.
I come nyumbani wet everyday.


August 7th, 2006

I mean to write in this notebook every day, but sometimes I forget. And sometimes I come nyumbani and from the pool and my hands are damp and the pen slides around in between my fingers and I get drops of water on the paper. And this is a really nice notebook, so I'd hate to soil it.


August 7th, 2006

I wrote this morning after the pool, but now I'm uandishi again. Grandmother got sick so now I have to pick up the groceries. I'm 10, but walking all that way is hard. I did it once but it was around chajio, chakula cha jioni time and the walk was so long kwa the time I left the store it was dark, and the owls were cooing. I ran nyumbani but stubbed my toes on the way. Back then, the armpit in the mitaani, mtaa wasn't there.


August 9th, 2006

I went to the grocery store to pick up maziwa and sponges and guess what! They remembered me from last time! Whenever I go to the store with grandmother she always tells me as we're driving back that the cashier didn't give her correct change. But the lady at the counter gave me a quarter back, so I bought a gumball. There was a really strange man at the store. I was walking down the freezer isle (it's really cold) and there was a man I could see a few rows of shelves behind me. He was so tall, I saw the juu of his head over the shelves. Even over the really tall cans! I wanted to ask him how he got so tall, but my grandmother alisema never to talk to strangers. And I have to mind her even zaidi now,

because she's ill, and getting worse.


August 11, 2006

I think the really tall man moved into our neighborhood. I saw him at the store again this evening. He was kwa those shelves again. I waited until he went to a different part of the store to see what he was looking at. It was just jikoni equipment, pots, pans, some candles, and knives. What a strange man.