Foreign languages and cultures interest me. I took an interest in Swahili and Kenya last month after listening to Sauti Sol’s latest album, Afrikan Sauce. I signed up for Duolingo’s Swahili course and got some audio lessons once it occurred to me to learn Swahili so I could appreciate the music I had been listening to more than I already did.
Fast forward to now, some duolingo lessons, more Swahili Pop songs and a month later, I am in the HNG Internship 5. I am chatting with a friend from Kenya and I get the idea to find out how much it would cost to go to Kenya for 3 months. I need to find out how much a visa, flight ticket and accomodation would cost. Next step, housing. I end up having to review Timbu, a travel site for the internship and hunt for cosmetic bugs. The site looks good at first view from a PC. I take a second look, this time on my Android tablet. All hell is let loose. I search for hotels in Nairobi, Kenya and I am greeted by a hot mess. Several elements are out of place.
Searching for hotels in Nairobi, Kenya
The result cards for the hotels have lots of unruly text and icons thats fail to sit right like they do when I view the same page on my PC. These bugs have had me geting my research results elsewhere and if you have 2 million Naira you are not using next year, let me borrow it for my “get out”. Hopefully, Timbu will shift shapes in a more pleasant manner that I will be able to use it to plan my trip as soon as you give me the money.