Consistancy..................

...is not my middle name. I should have updated the blog a wizzzile ago....

So far things have been pretty cool. There is another intern with me now living in the guest house...from......drum roll please .....ETHIOPIA!

So...usually I am excited to have a fellow Habesha in the house but...as I have become more and more ERITREAN decided to support my country and plot her demise.


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 Ethiopia is really part of Eritrea not the other way around,

· and always start my sentences off with "When I was deported from Ethiopia.."

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