So just a quick update while I type up more interesting stories. Yesterday Beni and I walked to the beaches in Cruzinha to fly my kite for a while, and I took some pictures. Right now, mar e brop (the Sea is Wild), as they say. Hopefully you can get a feel for it from the pictures. Basically, the waves are huge, the noise is tremendous (you can hear it all the way up the hill in Chan de Igreja). Certain Death to all who enter the water, or at least that’s what the Cape Verdians tell me. Anyway, along the way, we saw a very outgoing pig, had to shout to hear each other over the waves. There is also a picture of Beni at her new job at Botique Elegance, which is going very well.
In other news, my new house (pictures to come soon) has a problem with the ligacao (conection) to the power lines, so mine is the only house in town without power…except for when the whole town loses power. So now I’m going through the interesting experience of trying to find a commandeer a qualified person to fix whatever is wrong. Something tells me that this could take quite a while. In the meantime, I’ve moved everything from my freezer to the freezer at Beni’s mom’s house.
I lost my pen drive, which is the main reason behind the delay in updating the Blog, but my dear friend and gadget guru back home, JW, informed me that my MP3 Player will actually hold pictures and word documents as well, which turned out to be true! Have I mentioned that the MP3 Player is definitely the best, most important thing that I briught with me to Cape Verde? Anyway, my thanks to JW for letting me know…I never would have figured that out.
Some US Congressmen and Congresswomen will be coming to my island on Thursday (Does “yes mam” and “yes sir” suffice, or do you have to say “yes Congressman” and “yes Congressmam?”) I’ve been asked by the Powers That Be to play tour guide, which I’m very much looking forward to. My first foray into international politics! I’m to meet them in Port when they get off the boat and take them wherever they want to go. Hopefully I can talk them into coming to Chan di Igreja and agreeing to build a decent road and a new school, and possibly buying a school bus for the kids that have to go to Coculi. Oh, and one of those electric carts for disabled people. Wish me luck.
OK, more to come soon. Here are some pics.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Perfect the Pig
If you have not seen Babe, the movie abou the talking, sheepherding pig that wishes he was a dog, I highly suggest you watch it as soon as possible. Truly, a great film. This bastard reminded me of that movie.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Long Time No See
Hola.
It’s been a while but I wanted to let those of you who are interested know that I am in fact not dead or injured, and that, contrary to popular reports, I have not yet been caught by INTERPOL.
I have however, in the last 2 months, been to the States to see my friends and family (a long and strange journey which I’ll write more about soon), acquired a small pig, seen hundreds of naked Cape Verdians dancing in the streets for Carnival, suffered from a never-ending case of “engina” (I think it’s what we would call Strep Throat…I’m finally feeling better thank you), gotten a huge hickey on my forehead from an octopus I was trying to catch, hosted visiting volunteers, made the most delicious friend chicken and mashed potatoes in history, quit smoking (almost 3 weeks now and I haven’t killed anyone yet!), gotten my kite stuck in one of the three trees in Chan di Igreja, moved from my old house to another just across the way, spent a wonderful weekend in Mindelo with Benvinda, learned to cook 3 new meals and play nearly every Brian Adams song in existence, read 9 books (including The Hummingbird’s Daughter and 1000 Slendid Suns, which I recommend to EVERYONE) introduced the town of Chan di Igreja to the joys of washer pitching and Frisbee tossing, started a second round of English classes, help build a ramp for a disabled man in my town who had a wheelchair donated to him by an American aid organization, been peed on by Djonny Jr. (who fell asleep in my lap in the car on the way to town the other day and then proceeded to wet his pants), composed an original Valentine’s Day poem in Sanpadjudo Kriolu, pissed myself in the ocean when I was made victim of a practical joke and thought I was being attacked by eels, and fallen down a small flight of steps in my new house when the power when out unexpectedly.
I’ve managed to lose my pen drive however, so I transfer photos and I can’t pre-write the Blog entries on my laptop and then just upload them…which means that I’m paying for computer time as I write anything out, which means that I REALLY need a new pen drive if anyone out there happens to feel like sending one. (1Gig would be prefect!) Anyway, I’ll get one up about my trip to the states (and all the culture shock that that entails) and one about the killer morays that had me panicked in the ocean the other day.
I missed you guys and will write more soon.!!
Caley
It’s been a while but I wanted to let those of you who are interested know that I am in fact not dead or injured, and that, contrary to popular reports, I have not yet been caught by INTERPOL.
I have however, in the last 2 months, been to the States to see my friends and family (a long and strange journey which I’ll write more about soon), acquired a small pig, seen hundreds of naked Cape Verdians dancing in the streets for Carnival, suffered from a never-ending case of “engina” (I think it’s what we would call Strep Throat…I’m finally feeling better thank you), gotten a huge hickey on my forehead from an octopus I was trying to catch, hosted visiting volunteers, made the most delicious friend chicken and mashed potatoes in history, quit smoking (almost 3 weeks now and I haven’t killed anyone yet!), gotten my kite stuck in one of the three trees in Chan di Igreja, moved from my old house to another just across the way, spent a wonderful weekend in Mindelo with Benvinda, learned to cook 3 new meals and play nearly every Brian Adams song in existence, read 9 books (including The Hummingbird’s Daughter and 1000 Slendid Suns, which I recommend to EVERYONE) introduced the town of Chan di Igreja to the joys of washer pitching and Frisbee tossing, started a second round of English classes, help build a ramp for a disabled man in my town who had a wheelchair donated to him by an American aid organization, been peed on by Djonny Jr. (who fell asleep in my lap in the car on the way to town the other day and then proceeded to wet his pants), composed an original Valentine’s Day poem in Sanpadjudo Kriolu, pissed myself in the ocean when I was made victim of a practical joke and thought I was being attacked by eels, and fallen down a small flight of steps in my new house when the power when out unexpectedly.
I’ve managed to lose my pen drive however, so I transfer photos and I can’t pre-write the Blog entries on my laptop and then just upload them…which means that I’m paying for computer time as I write anything out, which means that I REALLY need a new pen drive if anyone out there happens to feel like sending one. (1Gig would be prefect!) Anyway, I’ll get one up about my trip to the states (and all the culture shock that that entails) and one about the killer morays that had me panicked in the ocean the other day.
I missed you guys and will write more soon.!!
Caley
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