There’s nothing like going home. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t been home in 2 months, 2 years or 20 years. Home will always be home. Yes certain things change but it is where your heart will always be. There is something about being born in a foreign country and leaving it for someplace else. You don’t always feel right in your new country and you feel like a foreigner in your birth country. Even with all that nothing beats being HOME.

Both of my parents and my sister have passed away so it is bittersweet being home. In Kinshasa I went to my old home, visited my primary school, saw my cousins that I grew up with and other family members. I ate like a gourmandais, I had the best time out, had a crazy photo shoot and experience with Sapeurs, made A LOT of new friends and fell in love with my birth country all over again. In Kinshasa I felt renewed, improved my Lingala slang, re-energized and had a whole new appreciation of why I started the business.

I hope through my travel journal you will fall in love with my birth country as well. The images you see in the media of the DRC is always about despair, war and disease. The DRC is the size of Eastern Europe. It's a vast country with amazing people and infinite potential. We have been blessed and cursed to have natural resources that rebels, foreign corporation and government are willing to kill for and the Congolese people have paid the ultimate price. With all that being said, there are huge parts of the country that are safe to visit.

In the video post, I will give you a brief view of my experience in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo - Kinshasa. I hope you enjoy the video as much as I enjoyed being home.

With Love,

Adolophine

You can always go HOME