LOL Makiki, emmah na wengineo,
I do not mean to burst your bubbles but wacha I patia you guys a few tips, if you are wise you will take them to heart, if not shauri yako. A small piece of advice for starters; for those who have not stepped foot on your POE, stop trying to do mingi mingi plans ati ooo I will arrive do CNA then do this. I almost burst a rib cracking up at some of the plans I am seeing. I also tried to do the same many moons ago from Kenya when most of you were probably still sperms in your papa's balls and so on. No matter how hard you plan, when you land in the USA you will be starting from ground ZERO. The only thing you need to be planning right now is how you will cope with the massive CULTURE SHOCK that you are going to experience mpaka some of you will be weeping like babies asking mama to bring you back home.
That culture shock will descend on you and stick around like a bad smell for months if not years. You come here thinking hapa ni kama Kenya ati you go next door to borrow sukari from mama so and so..wapi?? Try that and you'll find a LUGER staring at your face. Next thing I hope you all have admissions to Unis hapa already lined up if you don't have a degree already. By the way your Kenyan degrees are takataka here, if you think you will come hapa and Microsoft is waiting to hire you with your Kenyatta Uni degree I really pity you. Worse, if you are planning to come hapa and not even get into Uni but just do odd jobs (CNA na kadhalika) allow me to laugh at you for ten minutes rafiki (LOOOL). There are legion Kenyans hapa who came and started doing those kazi ya mkono odd jobs and 30 years down the line they are walking zombies with broken dreams. The cost of living here in the States si mchezo..ati you see people driving big cars hapa and sending a few sumunis home that build the best looking house in your village and think they are doing well?? A car and living in a nice apartment are nothing here...even people on WELFARE drive SUV's and wear Gucci. Do not be mesmerized by those toys, you will come get used to them quick and get bored of them. But those who have them are paying through the nose, some working three jobs to sustain the loans they take to buy those hopeless things. Of course if you are working three jobs to pay basic bills you have no time to go to school. Utakwama hapo hapo tu and join the host of hundreds of thousands if not millions of miserable alcoholic Kenyans here rotting at the underclass of American society. The only difference is you will be a depressed Gucci wearing SUV driving zombie but with a greencard while many of them don't have GC's.
Next thing, America is on decline watu wangu. The economy is in the worst shape in its history. In fact it is easier to get rich in Kenya than it is here. In Kenya some of us diasporans who bought worthless plots around Nairobi and coast in the 90s and early 00's for example are sitting really pretty. Nowhere in the world can you make such easy money as in Kenya. Unemployment hapa is running high except of course for matako wipers (LoL) McDonalds workers and the like. The Kenyans with degrees from Harvard and so on are actually heading home as the bail ship with the economic crises happening hapa. Unless matako wiping is your destiny you should think twice about coming here if you have a great job and a few investments nyumbani. If you have NOTHING at home then you have nothing to lose so by all means come to America and enjoy the bone chilling freezing weather and hostile people here!
Some of us tumeona America mpaka tumechoka, name it we have done it, we struggled the early years but stuck to school while others went the CNA route. The excitement that you guys are feeling for this place we lost it over a decade ago. The only thing we value about USA now is our US passports that let us in anywhere around the world. Kujeni tu muwe the new immigrant masufferers kiasi kidogo shauri yenu but you are in for tough times if you arent already a) very financially comfy b) planning to get into uni immediately you land or c) if you are leaving a good job and comfy life expecting to come here and get corporate jobs easy.
Ni mimi tu
Mombasa_Guy headed back to my retirement kibanda by the beach hapo Mombasa rahaaa[
I pity you bitter old man.Try and get a life.You seem so