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\ 6 " Qrono Weekly Times, Wednesday, April 26^ 3QQQ y prompting, they ran off. It was all over very fast, certainly certainly less than a minute. As we stumbled the five minutes to the campsite, nervous, nervous, shocked, and appalled, I was not only disoriented but We have to admit that we almost got on the next plane back to Zimbabwe, and possibly possibly on the next plane back to Canada. Although this was the scariest thing that has ever happened to us in our lives, completely unaware of what we are certainly happy that country we where in. In the we didn't give up then. It The cedar shingles for the new Band Shell are being made courtesy of Mark Stapleton, on his recently acquired shingle mill. F winbeneeded° 0d SUPply of cedar ,0 S S has already been donated, early estimates are that more Out of Africa-Part 14 Coming clean by : Aubrey and Keren Kassirer With the situation in Zimbabwe deteriorating daily, we elected to depart earlier than planned and guarantee our survival. Although we felt safe in our friends' home, who could tell when the violence violence over land redistribution (but encouraged by those in power to become a racial issue) would spread to the nearby suburbs of the country's country's largest city. The BBC World News became ubiquitous ubiquitous as we hastily arranged to bring our flight forward and then managed to leave town on the next flight to Johannesburg. From there we had no guarantees about flights but assumed we could survive in airports with our food stores until we found two empty seats on a plane. Luckily, we did not have to deal with the uncertainty of stand-by travel, as we managed managed to find seats on the next flight first to London and then to Toronto. After 35 hours we were home. And now that we are safe, we can elaborate on the circumstances circumstances that led to the theft of our camera and bag. It was our first day in Nairobi (February 12) and, like in all other cities in Africa, we walked into town with some water and a knapsack. In retrospect retrospect we are disappointed in the fellow travelers who joined us for the walk in to town, as they should have • warned us not to take a bag at all. We spent the day amidst foul odours, with numerous approaches by safari-sellers (some even followed us for blocks and in and out of buildings), and with a pleasant pleasant afternoon at the synagogue. synagogue. We could not even photograph the disgusting city for proof of its rank qualities, as neither of us felt it would be safe to bring out the camera camera at all. We miscalculated how long it would take to walk home to our campsite as well ' as how early it gets dark in Nairobi, and we found ourselves ourselves walking home just, before dusk in a bad area. We didn't realize it was a bad area; it looked just as nice as anywhere else. Although it was still quite light outside, the beautiful old trees, their canopy quite high off the ground, provided extra shadows shadows for the beautiful small ravine. With people walking in front of us and behind, we were ambushed by four men with a gun. We thought it was a joke as the man ran out in front of Aubrey and mumbled something something unintelligible. As Aubrey wondered what the man was saying, he heard the shuffling of feet behind and noticed the handgun pointing at him. Suddenly another man was trying to get into his pockets. Meanwhile, they had separated us and two men wrenched the knapsack off my back. In the process, i was punched in the jaw, thrown on the ground and kicked in thé head, ribs and shoulder. Once Aubrey gave up the money in his pockets, he raced over to where I was on the ground, being kicked and groped. With some end, I had a mild concussion, some short-term memory loss, and a few bumps and bruises. We were alive and had only lost a broken knapsack, knapsack, an old broken but functional functional camera, both our guidebooks, guidebooks, our journal, sunglasses (by the end of the trip we would both lose or break three pairs), and some important papers. Not only were our money. belts untouched (not for lack of trying to grope them off us), but I still had the money in my pockets! The next day, we filed a police report and Aubrèy returned to the crime scene (accompanied by the campsite security guard) to- see if the thieves had dumped anything they didn't want (hopefully our journal or guidebooks). Of course nothing was found. However, he did find some ID belonging to a local woman - undoubtedly another victim. After a day of rest and reflection, we decided to continue continue on to Ethiopia-after all. took us quite a while to restore our confidence, and we were lucky to have found refuge in our new friend Barbara's house, in Addis Ababa for our first few days in Ethiopia. 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