![]() A duty which has proved itself to be almost impossible. Quite excited about it, we decided to take home that antique waste. It was very old and it should have weighed 200kg. One day cycling around the neighbourhood we lived, we found out an enormous television. There was no money for anything, and, as the winter was approaching, we would like to have a television to entertain ourselves during those sofa and telly nights everybody needs… Did we had Harambee in London? To be there during this episode just upon our arrival was rather shocking…Īutomatically, we made an analogy with an episode also lived by us whilst living in London. And that includes us! Well, obviously Tiago was more of a help than Fernanda, but someone has got to take the picture □ What amazed us most, was to see that every single person who passed by, stopped what they were doing and went to help on the hard job of holding an electrical post. As we do not have electricity in this part of town and the government does not seem keen to help, the local people organised themselves to put up an electrical post themselves.īy the sound of “ Harambee” being shouted from the bottom of a dozen people’s heart who pulled the ropes trying to put up that lamp post, we saw the job done within a few hours. One of our first contact with the word Harambeewas when we had just arrived at the orphanage. ![]() People use it when they need help to put off a fire, or put up an electrical post, carry heavy loads or even to fundraise in order to pay the fees for your son to be in school. In rural areas, such as the one we currently live, is common to hear the shout of “ Harambee“! (it pronounces harambe, prolonging the sound of the vowel “E”, rather than speaking like bee, the animal). And, it is also stamped on the national flag.Īnd no, the Gorilla did not came first! (if you don’t know what we are talking about right here, check this out). During the country’s independence, in 1962, the use of the word Harambee was constantly, mainly by the first ever President Jomo Kenyatta. It is an allusion to team work and valuing the community before the individual. Harambee means “ all pull together” in Kenya’s national language, Swahili. It happened a couple months ago now and I've told the story to a good handful of friends and family members I'm still bewildered.This post is also available in: Português What does Harambee mean? She shoved a toaster under her monitor and in front of her keyboard and proceeded to make a bagel and walk away. This is an educational institution, guys. It looked like Salvador Dali had tried his hand at sculpting and abandoned the project halfway through. There were tiny little puddles of plastic underneath and several of the bottom row letters were all warped to shit. The cables were fine, never got word on whether the mouse still worked, but the keyboard was toast (pun intentional, I'm not sorry). ![]() The monitor, as it turned out, had not melted, but the heat had turned most of the screen white. I saw the aftermath a few hours later - $Dani had refrained from slapping the user, but very pointedly said nothing the entire time she was collecting the poor mangled electronics. ![]() Besides which, it's all the way down the hall. Why should she not tote a kitchen appliance all the way to work to wedge onto an already overcrowded desk? Who wants to wait five extra minutes in the morning to eat at home when you could do it from the comfort of your shared administrative office space? Sure there's one in the break room, but that's a public toaster used by god-knows-which-coworker. What else would you ever do with a toaster, right? And hey, her cubicle, her rules. $Quill: *with my face in my hands* Christ, I'll slap them if you don't. $Dani: *almost serious* $Manny, can I slap the user? $Manny just looked like he was considering an atomic headdesk. Monitor and keyboard.Ī lot of silent, slackjawed staring followed that one. $Manny: *patented "losing faith in humanity again" sigh* $Quill: *earbud yank* Sorry, did you just say someone melted a monitor? $Dani and $Manny - my fellow tech and our direct supervisor, respectively - looked about as dumbfounded as I felt. I turned around and hardly needed to ask to confirm. No, that was in fact a sentence that was said. ![]() I could not have heard that right.īut no. I was listening to crackly call recordings through one shitty, tinny-sounding earbud at the time and every other noise was kind of a background wash. I clarify this because when I first overheard that word in a sentence with "monitor" and "melted" I though for damn sure my ears were tricking me. FILTER POSTS BY LENGTH WELCOME TO TFTS! TELL US YOUR TALE! MODERATION INFO COPYRIGHT POLICY SPAM FILTER ALERT SISTER SUBREDDITS TALE SUBREDDITS THE BEST OF TFTS TFTS ESSENTIAL LINKS BYE EVERYBODY! < TFTS Top Tales - The Complete TFTS Archives ![]()
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