This is from an activity that we had to do in English for my A-levels. I drew on my life experience from the three years I spent living in Nairobi, Kenya. There was a 100 word word-limit.
I just found it lurking in a folder and I am proper getting into this posting thing, so here it is! October 2009 is going to be disproportionately large next to the months yet to come.
Weathered cars who have seen better days chug their way around burrows in the wild, unruly tarmac. Displeased engines growl savagely as rude, painted matatus squawk like fluorescent, obnoxious parrots as they cut impatient queues. “Keep death off the roads. Drive on the pavements.” People leap for their lives as they’re parted by arrogant rhinos of metal charging through the city as if they’re the next big thing.
Outside the caging gates of the shopping centre, hawkers prowl. Cheap and tacky merchandise are thrust against the glass of cars. Staring faces of the natives watch the pale-faced invaders.
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