Tuesday, July 21, 2009
" And she said that'll be 60 bucks.....
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Consistancy..................
So far things have been pretty cool. There is another intern with me now living in the guest house...from......drum roll please .....
Plan-A
(Arrival ...July 3)
Arch nemesis: Wow I am so glad there is another Ethiopian here
Me: UHHMMMM NO.....I AM ERITREAN! Do we look alike or summin?!?!
Arch nemesis: O_O (dumfounded)
Reality
Arch nemesis: Hey are you Habesha (general term for Ethio or Eritreans)
Me: (Thinking......f********K) Yes. (damn you arch nemesis *fist up in the air*)
All in all she did turn out to be aiight....but dammit I want an arch nemesis >_<
Plan B
· Quote from Eritrean Liberation Speeches daily,
· Pretend its Eritrean Independence day every other day,
· Explain that
· and always start my sentences off with "When I was deported from
In other news...I have realized that the blog is lacking in pics...other than Mubarek the camel (above). So i have decided to upload some pics of a partner assessment I was part of a few weeks back in Africa's largest slum ....KIBERA (forget S.E. DC)
*Captions are my own take on things ...reality (as always is secondary with moi) is in parenthesis...
Miles of slums ( Reality: Miles and MILES of slums..bigger population than Eritrea's Capital Asmara)
Slum mistress scoping out the territory to make sure there are no BLOODs in her area
"I keep a blue flag hanging out my backside, but only on the left side, yeah that's the crip side"
(Reality: Cute Girl)
"THIS IS A STICK UP FOO!!"-My mugger
(reality: Cute kid 2)
The Front for the Khat production facility
(Reality: Partner facility, converting human waste into cooking/heating gas. Also serves as a safe sanitation facility for Women and Children in a place where the ratio is about 50-500 people to a latrine)
Sure she looks like she is boiling water...but its way more sinister...i see U!!!! I SEE U!!!!!! >_< (Reality: Boiling water...supposedly >_<)
Slum KING!!!!!
(Reality: Founder of Bio center NGO...born and raised in Kibera...still keeps it gangsta though)
The other side....where the White Folk live...
(Reality: Where the White Folk Live)
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Thats it for now my peeps......i'll update more consistantly next time...fo sho.
-A