Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Last Night in Nigeria
Lots of photos of my farewell dinner, courtesy of the campaign, after the “jump” as those really sophisticated bloggers say.
Lots of photos of my farewell dinner, courtesy of the campaign, after the “jump” as those really sophisticated bloggers say.
Today we went to an art gallery with A, our gracious host. There was an incredible array of absolutely stunning, authentically Nigerian art but also things from South Africa and other parts of West Africa that were probably stocked as novelties for wealthy visitors — there aren’t any other kind here — who don’t know […]
In case the video upload doesn’t work, click http://youtube.com/watch?v=TC7BGbDquzI.
That was on the way to lunch. At lunch it was revealed that one of the guys won’t eat the chicken because of bird flu, and the other won’t touch fish because of the mercury. Naturally, all but totally cooked vegetables are also out of the question. Tofu, perhaps? Diet time. I learned something else […]
I posted a batch of pictures from today at my Flickr page and a video from today should also be working shortly in a post to follow…well, shortly. There was a huge event today honoring the late brother of our candidate at the center in his name, which is also our office building. There were […]
For some reason, Google thinks we’re in Israel. Too bad I don’t know Hebrew.