warning!

on the wall of our generator house:

adequate warning? skilled interests indeed!!

pearl of wisdom

A friend's pearl for today: If google doesn't know, then I got no other ideas.

What could be truer?

on purity and water tanks

Our water tank is very pure. It's always good to know.

all in a day's work

really, it is!! hmm, perhaps i DO need a dog. pictures to follow.
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T:

so speaking of sitting around all day

guess what i spent my day doing?

S:

what?

T:

sitting around :P

only, in the bush

like literally

because we got stuck

AGAIN

(this would be the third time for me so far this rainy season)

with a myriad of near misses

and of course, today just happened to be the day that i forgot my kikoi, and all the food i usually bring on any journey

S:

WHAT?

you sat in a bush all day?

haha, that sounds like something from far side comics

daaaammnn..

why must you forget ur kikoy on bush day

T:

luckily, our driver had stolen one of my kikois which he likes to wrap around his seat, so we had one which we put on the ground and sat on

well, eventually i fell asleep on it

dude, we got stuck at like 12:00

spent like 2 fucking hours trying to get the car out

then a tractor came and it was a small tractor i guess or something because it couldn't get the car out

S:

holy shit.

T:

so the 2 dudes i was going with to do the work went to the place we were supposed to go and did the work

brought back the tractor

well, another more powerful tractor i guess

they left at 3, and came back at 5.30!

and we got the car out around 6

so i literally sat around doing nothing at all from 12:00 - 6:00

i stayed behind with the driver

so i mean, i guess we did stuff

like walk to where the water was so he could wash his hands and scare away the cows which were kinda scary

and then i fell asleep

for like an hour

then i was bored so we went for a walk until we heard the tractor coming

and then he started to randomly dance

S:

oh wow

did you have a book?

T:

(i think he was delirious from hunger)

no

i didn't have a book

because it was supposed to take 1.5 hours to get there, 1 hour of work, and 1.5 hours back

i wasn't supposed to have time to read

but usually i bring a book, but this time, i didn't have time to go home before heading out, so i forgot my usual supplies

oh man, we didn't eat anything - we were both so hungry by the time we got home

S:

aww

poor thing.

T:

at least i have reserves - he doesn't have any

either way, it's a whole other level of 'oh yes, i'm at work' taking a nap in the bush!

HA HA HA HA

S:

hahahahahha

"taking a nap in teh bush"

hahahha

only you t!

T:

at one point i considered collecting some tadpoles to have some pets but the cows were kinda scary

S:

HAHAHAHHAHAHA

hahahaha

omg.

you really need a dog

lovely :)

came across this lovely (following a theme here!) CV the other day. nothing to say but :) :).

tmail

while chatting with a friend, she wrote:

so you can open your blog but not your tmail?

haha tmail - i mean gmail!

you should register tmail as a domain

this is my belly laugh for the day. (my name begins with 't')

it's raining mangoes!

this is certainly something new! :)

on malaria

me: i had malaria.

friend: welcome to the club, I've had it 1000 times. mosquitoes run away from me now. they get malaria from me.

definitely one of the best laughs i had after i got malaria for the first time in my life. for those of you wondering - no, i wouldn't 'recommend' it to anyone. ;)

my pet sheep

on romance

in a conversation about marriage one day, one of my guys mentioned that he would like to be married in 7 years, when he is well established and able to support a family. although he felt being able to support a family comfortably was very important, he did regret however that he would be 37 at that time and thus that would give him only 3 years to be romantic with his wife. when i asked him why only 3 years (after all, you can be romantic the your whole life, right?), he said, 'well, you can't be romantic after 40, because by then you're grown up and you can't be acting like that anymore.' 

:)

it's an art

(i'll let you decide whether the art is in giving these kinds of directions or actually finding the right place.)

so I gave the following directions to a village one day: there's a big tree, then 2 trees that are very close to each other, then a big hole on the ground, then a tree with a fence around it, then the village. 

think we made it there?

today's laugh (because i can't think of a clever title)

a colleague of mine, learning how to drive, was backing out of our creative 'parking space', and spoke rapidly to our driver in arabic. i was curious about what he said so i asked him, "what did you say?" he replied, "i asked him: 'what about my behind, is it fine?'" 

:)

a restroom please

a colleague from headquarters came for a visit to the field and asked our staff, "where is the restroom?" our staff replied, somewhat puzzled, "you want a room where you can rest?"

only a goat...

so a bush chicken flew into our windshield..

...and this was the result:

oops!!

your obedience is always appreciated

taken at a hotel in south sudan.

when pimples are cool

hey! it's a pub AND a club!! 

riddle me this: what do coffee & love have in common?

answer (picture taken at a coffee shop at the bangkok airport):

bathroom stories

"it all started with a latrine...," a colleague, speaking about how a professional relationship with a partner NGO started to go sour.

heard on the phone

in south sudan: 'yes yes, i'll talk to him, then i'll feed you back.' 

in somalia: 'speak up, you're breaking down!' that would, of course, be in lieu of 'breaking up'.