STORIES FROM MY HEART

Is it ever too soon? For anything? Do we ever know when the time is right? Is there such a thing as the right time? I am speaking to myself..... But if you do ask yourself these questions...as I have today. Then let me know what you did..cos right now, i don't care about perfect timing, I just care about now.

I always wanted to say that :-) Anyway, I have learned a few things about Americans while here in DC. Its been a beautiful experience. The public transport system is amazing, but someone needs to build the Americans faster escalators. Don't get me wrong, they work just great, especially in the subway, but these Americans can't just stand in one place and wait for the escalators to reach the destination, they are always running up and down the escalators! Relax, Dear Americans, unless the escalators is part of your work out..take a break, stop...for a minute or two..or take the stairs....

Sunday, 10th April 2011 Touchdown doles international airport in dc, destination: George Washington university inn The time difference between Nairobi and Washington dc is 7 hours. Got to the hotel at about 10.00am, but there were no rooms available until 3pm, lucky me, there was a South African journalist on the shuttle to the hotel. He suggested we take a walk around Washington, and like 2 tourists we did the rounds, Lincoln Park, around white house, and a kite festival at the Lincoln Park. And then Monday came, the excitement! Here’s a brief diary: Monday 10.00am Press conference: global economic outlook Global projections 4.5% Developing countries & emerging economies 6.5% Tuesday, 10.00am Global financial analysis Technical hitches 2.00pm -John Lipsky Before the crisis Talks centered on the role of the IMF, World Bank, donor countries. Lipsky said a closed economy is not the answer, globalization is inevitable The way to go is sustained rapid growth, g...

Written on the 9th of April on my way to Washington DC for the IMF spring meetings Im writing this at the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa while waiting to board my flight to Washington DC for the IMF annual springs Meeting. Im excited. Its my first visit to the US and it does feel good that im not going as a student or one in search of the American dream. Im going for work, in times like this, Im glad i am a journalist. In 2010, while still at CNBC, over a media lunch with the IMF team that was in town from Washington, I managed to squeeze an interview with IMF Chief Dominic Strauss Khan, one that happened too fast for my own good. I had been scheduled to Interview Africa's head of the IMF, who was in and out of tight meetings that afternoon, but when I was seated next to the man himself, I spoke to him, and his media people, and a few minutes later,the Interview was arranged at his Serena Hotel suite. That's how im part of the group of 35 journalists from a...