Congrats on the big move Colin, another great post; glad to see you've safely landed in Addis Ababa! Here's hoping Bobo gets acclimated soon to Ethiopian cuisine. Perhaps some mesir wat with injera would do the trick? ...just kidding, he'll surely throw that up too! Wishing all of you an easy "settling in" at your new home, and please keep the posts coming.
By the way, George paid homage to you last night by wearing your trade-mark sleeveless dress shirt to Ultimate. ...seemed odd without the moustache.
Take care!
S.G.
Welcome to Africa! Great post! Welcome to Africa! One thing I'm worried about is security. Are you sure that you don't want barbed wire and electric fences?
Keep posting!
yes. you're back. Thank God- a bit of explanation. This blog is in my top two favs- close by the one you wrote about your "help"- la criada. I'm so thankful for the pics so I can imagine you both there- and Bobo's ears peaking through gives your presence there true legitimacy. Well done- I LOVE you Colin. xo
go bobo go... thanks for sharing colin. so funny to be reading this in my apartment above 202, easily imagining that you might come over any minute, drink my coffee and use the internet. except you're THERE! excellent piece, by the way.
in re: photo titled "Moai in rano raraku, the quarry" Not to point out the obvious, but they seem to have modeled that one off your nose.
Good writing. First paragraph of self reflective b.s. aside.
Good luck on the transition.
your vocabulary! Geesh. translation: oh my god! Thank goodness I can get the gist from context. My 4th grade English teacher is in my head saying: look for context clues. I was ready for another one of your blogs Colin- the pics are beautiful- last two are my favs. xo
cool but... what was it like to be there? did you dig being among the maoi or did you spend most of your time pondering sacred suckiness? did you sleep on the island? can you? I have to say the only maoi I have ever seen was in the British Museum. Weird.
Jealous I'm a little bit jealous of your trip, a lot jealous of your continued excellence in mustaching, and insanely jealous of this Joel character who sounds amazing indeed. See y'all on the dark continent.
no number Wait a minute! You've been working all year and paying taxes and after all of that, you can't get a refund because of one silly number. Hmmm....I put a revision on my taxes and mailed it today because I wasn't able to claim my two kids on my taxes until my husband got a SS#. Didn't matter that both of my kids are U.S. citizens, or that I, the worker, am a U.S. citizen. When Ale was undocumented, I couldn't claim them (punishment for being married to a "lawbreaker" and obvious threat to American society).
Dude, I can't believe the Doña fired y'all! Also, you should know by now that there is no jeitinho brasileiro in chile. All "but..."s will be met with, "eso lo que hay."
Another good chuckle. This is the first I've heard about the DR -- and now you say she's gone. It must run in the family. I've never been able to keep "help" more than two or three visits. And about those "cafe con piernas' establishments... why didn't you take *us* to one? :)
Love,Mom
so funny Colin hey- good to hear your critical and funny voice. now that DR days are over- what does this mean for you???? will you take on the quehaceres or find another DR? xo Lisa
cafe con piernas How ironic! Just last night I came across an expression in a novel I wss reading that I'd never heard before. Yup, coffee with legs. But in "Next" it meant a coffee to go. Obviously, the Chileans seem to have upgraded their coffee concepts. Last time I was in Santiago everyone who drank coffee had to be content with Nescafe instant accompanied by a pound or so of refined sugar. As it was explained to me they grow evdrything in Chile EXCEPT coffee. As this was during the waning yeas of the dictadura I smiled and sipped my Nescafe while wishing fervently it was a pisco sour!
Coffee with legs.. Coffee with legs makes me think of some sort of Disney walking tea cup. Though the real explanation is less psychedelic there is still a counter culture deviant look to the whole place. I would thing that coffee is not what I would want in that setting. The colors of the place look like they were designed to hide the waitress's blemishes, not to compliment the coffee.
I guess your being fired by D.R. answered my other question. I was wondering if having someone show up to clean up after you meant you had become a tidier house keeper.
Sorry your having trouble with the banks but all this international work is bound to end up in one hell of ameseginalehu.
Steve G.
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Congrats on the big move
Colin, another great post; glad to see you've safely landed in Addis Ababa! Here's hoping Bobo gets acclimated soon to Ethiopian cuisine. Perhaps some mesir wat with injera would do the trick? ...just kidding, he'll surely throw that up too! Wishing all of you an easy "settling in" at your new home, and please keep the posts coming. By the way, George paid homage to you last night by wearing your trade-mark sleeveless dress shirt to Ultimate. ...seemed odd without the moustache. Take care! S.G.