So it was one of those days during my holiday break from work. My friend had invited me for a weekend do. We were chatting away about our experience with Gang and some of the things we have learnt and beating deadlines with assignments. She’s like we need a weekend get away with a few friends. And l was like great idea l don’t remember the last time I went for something like that since the Covid drama kicked in.
We had places we had thought of and we even reached out to find out if they were opened. Unfortunately most of them were still closed due to the pandemic situation around the world. Until Seziwa came in mind for us and created a group for further discussions about the road trip. For some good reason, we felt like this place was the it place to be at over the weekend. Now the task was who can make it for the do and we thought through carefully. People can be disappointing when it comes to such events.
One of our friends told us l am in for the weekend do. We were so excited about it and added a few people to the group. Pretty much came to about six people. We talked through the budget and contributing started coming in Saturday evening. We called our boda guy to deliver the food stuffs but he had already gone home. Personally l don’t like things done last minute and this bothered me that we now had to wake up early to prepare and now we had to wait until the next day when supermarkets open at 8:00am for some of the things we needed to buy. We woke up early watched business Garage and my friends had to go out and buy the stuff.
It clocked 9:00am we haven’t yet had breakfast and we needed to start cooking for our road trip. At 9:30am my friend brought the foodstuffs home we started preparing and cooking. Remember our plan was to leave at 10:00am and as you can tell that was in our dreams. We started running up and down, knives here and there it was just dramatic. It clocks 10:00am and we decided to watch Garage as we were getting ready.
Our ride arrived at exactly 10:15am and now the pressure kicked in as most of the snacks were not yet ready. But we kept it calm but l was dying inside because l hate last minute things. We watched Garage and were are singing along and laughing together. We were doing the some ka money series so you can imagine. The boys came in & they decided to lend a hand and things started shifting yours truly was the chef for the day. On the sad part of things was one of our friends had just lost his Dad during the lockdown. This road trip was to cheer him up and also to comfort him.
I personally lost my younger brother last year and the feeling was mutual. We shared alot in the kitchen and the process of dealing with grief and pain. I realized that it’s always important for us to check on each other especially in such a trailing time. It got emotional for both of us but we overcame it and decided to look forward to the journey. It clocked 11:00am most of the food is ready but remember l haven’t showered yet and these guys chased me out of the kitchen to go and prepare myself.
I went and took a shower then got dressed up pretty fast. My hair wasn’t done well and l had to get moving. My friends had packed our stuff and we were ready to hit the road. Please watch out for part 2 Seziwa Walls to be continued.
The journey to growth. 