Pictures

Some readers have complained that there are not enough pictures here. Well I found some sweet pictures of Djibouti on a computer in the internet cafe so check it out. these were NOT taken by me. See the skinny road across the water? look in the right rectangle. Ok now see the white rectangular building? I live right next to it. Its a giant mosque

Protests in Djibouti? nah

Some have asked if I think the protests in the Muslim world will spread to Djibouti. Let me answer in a word, NO. Allow me to demonstrate why I believe there will not be protests of any kind in the near future in Djibouti, I present to you the Djiboutian national past time.

khat

My Journey into Africa: You want your package?

My Journey into Africa: You want your package?: "Went to the post office yesterday because my wonderful friend sent me a package. I get there and go to the office for packages, but I went t..."


I got my package...

diverse readers

There is a nifty feature on blogspot that tells me the country of people looking at the blog. For this week alone, there were 10 countries covering 5 continents. Very cool. Some of these people I know, but some I don't know. Some countries were Spain, Argentina, Slovenia, the United Arab Emirates, Senegal, and Singapore.

Thanks for reading

Applause?

Today I went to the French cultural center to watch a movie. It was called "Asterix goes to the Olympics." Asterix is a cartoon character, maybe you've heard of him? Anyways, its a kids movie and the place was full of kids. Towards the end of the movie as the bad guy was vanquished, the hero was winning, getting the girl, etc, applause broke out 18 different times. I know because I counted. At that point it was almost impossible to hear the film because applause was starting up constantly. Interesting way to end the movie

some highlights

This is post #50 on Dan's Djibouti Journal. I'm shocked that I have been posting this regularly but thanks for reading so far.

 I saw another group of teenage girls fighting on the street, the girls had to be physically restrained by some men walking by. I have never seen teenage girls fight in the US in public but this is the 3rd one I've seen in Djibouti.

Rachel Jones baked me a loaf of homemade bread yesterday! The bread here is less than good and Rachel's bread is pretty amazing.

I started my 3rd French class this week at the Alliance Francais. I'm planning to take a certification exam in May or June in French so I want to take as many classes as possible before that.

I'm currently on a break from the university, i'm not sure when classes will begin again, what classes I will have, or what my schedule will be.

I decided to fast from watching movies & tv shows for awhile. I have a hard drive loaded with movies and tv shows and i feel like i've been wasting a lot of time watching them. So i gave the hard drive to a friend and now i'm trying to read more and play guitar more. so far so good

Irony

Sometimes these posts write themselves. Last night as I was walking home I saw an overweight/obese white man getting out of an SUV to go into a pizza place. I didn't think much of it until I noticed that on the side of the vehicle, was the logo WFP. In case you're not familiar with that acronmyn, thats the World Food Program.