Tuesday, January 5, 2010

TIME FLIES

Time flies, of course you can say that again and again, last year at this time some of us who were in India for the Development Journalism course were waiting in calm anticipation for our travel date.

Thats why during the last days before our return to our respective countries, I could not help but sit in our famous computer lab and posed for the camera. I did it with my colleagues from Nepal and The Gambia, I took the photo, knowing full well that at some point in my life, I would probably look at it and comment on it, just like the way I'm looking from this prism.

It was my Tanzanian colleague Barasa whose new year's message reminded me how far time had flown, and the changes he has noticed since his return from Delhi. He need not elaborate as I understand full well how frustrating it can be for some one who has gone for a relatively short time abroad on studies, only to come back and encounter series of challenges, sometimes tough choices you have to decide swifly. In this case, like the way my GRTS colleague did, Barasa left his newspaper for a telecoms company in Tanzania, only that Pierre Sylva went to the Gambia's electricity and water company, where he's doing PR jobs.

So for me this time of the year was truly a moment to reflect on, as I have noticed marked differences in my life, I know some of you have similar things to present.

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