Nyanyasa. Alright. Ula pendaku nyanyasa wa tu. Nyeri makueni in. My answer is no. Kozata hi pesampia. I just changed at the immediate decrease in value. Bado ni pesakama ili ingine tu ita ibi wa tu. Maybe ata ita ibi wa more.  Thank you so much. Big up kwa kopia. Prince Eden Vika Wapi. Corruption in Kenya. Ni kama basic need kue to what? Kachizi fam kama kawai. That one is new. It's a basic need sana. Ni basic need. Corruption is a very true. I'm saying be optimistic kido. Watch ni kwa negative all through. You never know things might change. So those are some of your comments. Keep sending them in on all our social media platforms. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. We will keep sampling them as the show goes on. So like I said, Mika has had very interesting guests. And I'm about to introduce another interesting guest. She is my namesake and she is very young. She is a spoken word artist, writer, a script writer. Hi. Hi. How are you? Fine. How are you feeling today? Feeling cool. You're feeling cool. You look anxious. Somehow. Why are you anxious? I don't know. Why are you anxious? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. First of all, how old you are? You're 19. I'm turning 19. So technically you're 18? Yeah. So you're passionate about script writing? Back then, from 2. You know, as in nilikwana penda venye waswa drama school. As in drama yashile tuilikuwa. Then I was interested. So I used to write scripts. Za kuat, zao. So scripts za play? Za solo verses? I started with scripts. Za ku play? So you write a whole play? Yeah. Provided I have the topic. Then I skipped to spoken word. I had a friend. Alikwana itwa Margaret. She used to do them. Sa indolini drug. Then nikawana. It's not bad. One only decided to change. Other than, is it different than kwandika script za plays? Siya ti nili change completely. I do both. So currently umendiki anani scriptia spoken word? Spoken word. Watweingi. I used to write them like Wakenda, Fankis. Someone tells me write this for so and so. Yeah. Then nandika. Nimepewa tukaza. Wakendika, why you not performing them? You know, kunaile... kunaile flow watwa spoken word ufuata. You know, some kuna time nili sema. Then monyali skiza kanyambia. Kunaile flow ufuata wa. But somehow I do it like a speech. Sika real spoken word. So I got someone who does them. But we just write.  And why didn't you bring that person along Leo? To skia how good your pieces are? He couldn't make it. Nili ambi wa jana kufusu interview. So kum convince pia. Haji pa. Chutamuita next time, make sure next time umembe ba nagewe. You know that's the best way we can tuneza jua enyewe. Script za iblin zimeweza. So what's the difference between writing a poem and a spoken word piece? Writing a poem. Me, as for me, in a poem you have to follow a... kunaile rhyme. Your rhyme scheme. But spoken word... It takes me back. Spoken word you just write in a flow too. Ah, okay. Umtumunyumende kia ana performo api? Currently... I got two evo. So na jua tuluma liza shule juzi. So... So akuna ma lipe nye mepata specifica limneza kumki perform and then to showcase your talent. But we are working on it. Do people approach you to write for them? How many people? So what's the story of a spoken word poem? Like at home, I used to write at school. You know, this person used to write in a laminate. So I used to write in a laminate. So let's say you want to write for someone. I do the writing, from ita kwa from you to the person you want to take it to. Okay. What's your goal in your writing? Unataka kufika api? A manini unataka kwa chivu? Okay. As for me, if I can succeed, like Sayi, I look for people, other people who are out there, you know, as in, where's Ikwati? You're the only one who's doing this. Then ukwa successful. I look for the others. Other writers. Other writers. Other writers. Are you looking at ita as a full-time career? Now that you've malda shule last year, unapanga kunda ukwa yanini shule? Shule? Okay. I'll go to campus, on August. Me, let's say spoken word, ita kwa to aside from my career, I want to do civil engineering but I'm not so sure about it. You're still finding your way? Yeah. Okay. So it's not something you'd like to do full-time? Full-time? Kuna zendai wa nifani? Like nifani? Watwake mwa shule wa nambi wangwa. You have to have a solid career. Tufika ukunje, and then everything just changes. Yeah. Nice. If anyone wanted you kukukontakta kupate for you to write for them, how can they get to you? Okay. Hauna Facebook page? Nikuna Facebook, kupate yo Facebook page? Facebook at Aurelia Eve. Ukuna Facebook page pake. You're still here. You have a very long way to go. Very long way to go. Interesting. So I want to ask you a question. Nojo atwanandika they're smart people. They're learned people. Yes. How many seconds are there in a year? And then nojo, u metokashule juzi. If it's something to calculate, sika masisi tu mekaka so esa buinakwa kizongongkoti. That's a long story. So how many seconds are there in a year? Not sure. Think of something. Many seconds. How many seconds? Many seconds. I give you my answer. That's your final answer. There are 12 seconds in a year. 12 seconds. In every month. This second. Yeah, every day. Second, second, second. Yeah. 12 seconds. 12 seconds in a year. That's funny. That's funny and interesting. If you did not know now, you know. So in terms of work, writing, umepata support from your parents, from your friends. Okay, my mum knows I write, but she has no clue. She doesn't know much about it. Why don't you tell her more about what you do? Okay, she knows I do it, but at her dream I tell Nini she's not interested. That's strong. Hi. That's interesting. I want to write scripts because it's interesting. So what about your friends? Do they support what you do? Yeah. Is this something that pays you? For now, currently no. I just write for fun. You just write for fun? You wouldn't want to write for money? I would, but for now I can't go judging people like charging Nini ati na kwandikiya na kuchaj It's like na practice, but they're good. Yeah, but they're good. But eventually you would like them to pay. Okay, all right. What do you write about? Emotions. What? Just emotions. Love, peace. Yeah. And if other than where kupia na pieces, can people read your poems in your spoken word pieces? Mm-hmm. Where can they get them? What's up? So if they want na hatuna na mbalakwa, how do you go about that? See, if they want it, they ask for it. Aha, okay. I don't think I would like to tell you to give your number, I think. Amma, you'd like to give your number just in case mtu anata ka apis. Aha, I think that's that's a no for now. Maybe eventually you would like them to pay na your contacts, right? Any challenges that you may face in your writing? Yeah. What challenges? Challenges, sometimes you may come and you may ask this topic I want to present it to someone. So you may ask then so many corrections like for him anata ko somehow and you may change this topic I don't want this one at all. Yeah. How do you deal with that challenge? I don't know how to deal with it. Sorry to say that. I don't know how to deal with it. I don't know how to deal with it. I know your mum is looking at you. Aha. Yeah. Okay, thank you so much for making time to be with us. Is there anything else you'd like to say before we wind up? Thank you for having me. You're welcome. We hope to see you in the next few years and we hope to see you pieces. Kila maali. Thank you so much. And that was Evelyn Wanjiro. She's a writer. She's very young. Please support her if in case you want a poem written for you, spoken word piece then she's the person to get to.  We will be back with more of the East Circuit after this.


This is a real life problem my husband came up with about a year ago at our cabin. We're building a cabin in northern Minnesota and he said I wonder how high up off the water we are. And I said oh I can do this with trigonometry. We know that we are 105 feet back from the water's edge. We had to know that in order to get our building permit. And I went up to the second story of our cabin and held a carpenter's compass to my eye with a level on top so I knew it was horizontal and sited down to the water and found out that it was 25 degrees from horizontal angle of depression down to the water. Because I know that horizontal at the second story window and horizontal at the water's edge are parallel I know that if this is a 25 degree angle it is also a 25 degree angle down here because remember the horizontals are parallel so this 25 degrees is an alternate interior angle to this angle here so I can make that angle be 25 degrees. From this 25 degrees I want to know I already know the 105 degree set back sorry the 105 foot set back and I wish I knew this height from the water up to the second story window because this height distance is opposite the 25 and the 105 feet the horizontal is adjacent to the 25 I'm going to use tangent. So tangent of 25 degrees equals opposite over adjacent. So tangent of 25 degrees is x I'm going to multiply both sides of the equation by 105 to start to solve and I get 105 times tangent of 25 equals the distance I'm trying to calculate and when I punch that into my calculator I get 48.96 so the distance up to the second window of the cabin is approximately 49 feet or 50 feet if I want to impress my friends and neighbors. So that's how high up my cabin is off of the surface of the lake good to know.