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Long time no hear Simon. Glad to have you back. Happy to see that you settled well.What happened to Nayfara? I am still yet to make the final move and it will come in due time.

Wonderful positive view from you Dada. I am feeling helpless about you not being aboard the DV 2015 but want to encourage you to soldier on... life goes on and one wonderful door is there to open for you, just keep knocking.

I will deviate a bit. Any body following the on goings in Nairobi about Obama's intended visit and anticipated stand on same sex rights? As an LPR who is an aspiring American citizen (He is my president) and a Kenyan citizen for all my my life, i hope he will be sensitive to the culture here...

I sampled suburbs to the entire north of DC. Had I not encountered a sitting duck situation, I would have done the entire metro district. Other bigger stores and malls had nothing unique about them. You only got the warm welcome welcoming smiles from 7-11. It was also brisk business in almost...

The ones I saw in many a suburb town of DC were small but strategically situated convenience stores mainly stocking coffee, bread, milk etc, things you needed to pick on almost daily basis. I sampled ten and the staff in about seven of them were unmistakable- Ethiopians and good Ethiopian and...

Thanks. you got it spot on. Its a mutant chain of convenience stores.

Random comment: Today, a rough mental sketch of my five year strategy in the in the Washington DC metro area finally came through my mind. It was hard and I am glad it did come after almost a year of thinking and finding out , rethinking on and on and on. All I have to do is write it down...

Someone update me Is 7-11 An Ethiopian Owned enterprise?

The cheapest option is usually IOM. Contact them and best of luck.

Do you want to post your interview experience? These days few members in this thread do that.

Congratulations on your big day.

Congratulations. Did you notice the determined tireless act by the airline staff for 14 plus hours? Only comment to them is on the first leg between Nairobi and Dubai.The Announcements in broken swahili left me in stitches. It's a sweet language when fluently done. Wish you well in your...

Probably the system has been re programmed to compare originally submitted information against what you fill in the DS 260, just a guess. Certainly one is free to marry at any time and a lot of guys who, prove at interview that they got into genuine marriages after entering the lottery get...

Trailblazing = 49% effort,49% talent and 2% luck. you won't get a country that knows how to combine these three than USA.

OMG!

So how did you go go about try in to slice out your 'profitable share of the pie'?

Obviously true. Class based assessment carries a small percentage of final grade but in reality, its often tougher than the formal exam, analogical to the anxieties and preparations for the DV interview yet the real one is short, simple and straightforward.

Almost all the continuous assessment tests I have ever seen are name based. Why? Scores aside, lecturers easily put a face to a performance which is key aspect of continuous assessment. Plus, ever been in a class of only two? Good old profs. taking you in such, often crazily hard ones don't...

Ha ha ha. If you took a timed exam with a name that long, you would need a little extra time to write it !

Random hints from my notebook: 1. Ultra Mobile has one of the easiest phone connection tarriff - no contract. Shops offering this will also stock unlocked phones is you can use the phone in other countries including Kenya. 2. You will find internet connection indispensable and you really need...