What if you knocked down a dog?

Driving is one very interesting activity. While it's convenient, comfortable and fun it carries such a huge responsibility with it. Today i ran down a dog, it's quite sad since i heard the dog crying with pain while i was driving over it. It was an accident i wish i could have avoided, but i saw one dog crossing the road and i braked for it to cross, i quickly thought phew how lucky and then out of nowhere two other dogs came after it, i don't think those two dogs were checking to see if there were cars on the road, i think they were just following the first dog and opps they just crossed right in front of my wheels. It was too late for me to stop and i think i knocked one down and the other one escaped luckily so i believe since i heard only one crying with pain while i was driving over it. I didn't have the courage to look back or slow down after the incidence.

Am wondering what would be the best thing to do in such a situation, a friend of mine told me that i should have reversed and killed it quickly instead of leaving it to die a slow and painful death but i think that is too harsh and ruthless. Stop and take it to the vet? but where would i get the courage to do that?

Best thing to do it to try and avoid as much as possible such an incidence and of course pray that obstacles are eliminated as much as possible along your driving lane.

Blogging live from Addis

It’s been a while (read about 12 months) since i was last in this country, Ethiopia. The place brings to me some very fond memories and particularly since the first time i ever entered a plane to take a real trip and not for some primary school learning session brought me to Ethiopia and that was quite something! All the procedures in the airport, the check-in and i remember i had my belt, earrings, bangles and many other things beeping at the security checks, finding out what the food tastes like on the plan and it also took me an entire week packing my suitcase, talk of doing something for the first time!

Well, it’s interesting how this time round i packed on Sunday night and i left on Monday and i was only interested in attending the workshop, doing my information management work, offer support to the logistics team and take the 1st flight back to Nairobi no chance to greet my friends from here, or probably it is because i have so many other things going on parallel back home. Nevertheless, besides the extreme cold and nursing a wet nose, i am enjoying eating my injera and am wondering will i really get sometime off to go and shop, for some reason i always find clothes that fit me better here than when am at home, where i find them an inch bigger.

My plane leaves tomorrow (Thursday) night and then I hop off to Eldoret to join the rest of my family to saying goodbye to my brother-in-law’s mum. Quite a week for someone who doesn't quite like operating from the suitcase but i still appreciate the change of weather! c'est la vie