Q: What will you miss most?

A: Our good Kenyan friends, chapatti, walking over the railway bridge, the friendliness of everyone. Learning Swahili with Lucy and Nick, going on adventures all the time, giraffes. Work-life balance. The monkeys who stole the sugar bowl from my office. A country where a cold day is almost the same temperature as a warm day in the UK. Rides on the back of pikis (motorbikes). Meeting new people constantly, and making friends with people we probably wouldn’t even meet back home. Elephants. Cute children tugging at my beard, people taking the time to find out how you are, wandering round South B. Huge, ripe avocadoes right outside my door for 20 bob (15p). Spending so much time with my loved one. Never having to wait for a bus (there’s no schedule, but there’s always one there). A big apartment. Strolling round Nairobi city centre on a Sunday. Feeling ‘light’ – few possessions, little need to buy things, no real obligations, freedom to do whatever. The support of fellow VSOs, the eagerness of people like us in a strange land to make friends and share experiences. Safaris, coconut beaches, Splendid Starlings, colourful fish, Kenyan pride, cooking on gas. Tusker beer, choma, Kenyans dancing at every opportunity, mangos.