We signed up to be members of the club at the British Embassy. Basically, we sit around in overstuffed chairs smoking pipes, drinking tea and reading the newspapers. Joking, sorry British folk. They put on a big barbeque buffet every Friday night and we now get the discount rate. A lot of people go and the food is pretty good. Most importantly, everyone speaks English. We don’t have any pictures of this as security there is pretty tight.
Other than that, we are meeting new people in the tightly knit expatriate (mostly US Embassy/US military /United Nations) community. The nights and weekends are full of interesting characters that seem to move around en masse to the 3 or 4 places that foreigners hang out in Kinshasa. It feels a lot like college sometimes except here everyone is in their 20s-40s.
We even threw our own first party at our hotel room on Friday night (technically Saturday morning) to watch the Michigan State – North Carolina basketball game. Due to the time change, the party/game didn’t start until 1:00 AM, but 8 of us stayed strong until the game ended at 4 AM. You got to love Spartan fans.
We are loving the blog. Please keep it up. You guys have it great over there. For some stupid reason I thought you guys were going to be roughing it. Freaking watched a college basketball game? Giving up two seasons of college football might have been the toughest for me in Madagascar.
ReplyDeleteCannot wait to hear how life evolves for you guys. Keep it coming.
I really want to discuss the possibility of coming out to see you guys when I come back over to Madagascar next spring/summer.
zach
nice start to the blog, how's the weather
ReplyDeleteThe weather here is hot and STEAMY. An gram of physical exertion produces a kilogram of perspiration. LG is making a lot of money and condensation selling split-system air conditioners.
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