I started this blog while stranded in Malaysia on my second trip around the world in 13 months. If only I remembered to cash in my frequent flier miles... email: departure.lounge@gmail.com
dear sends-of-the-parrot-movie,
my mailbox is now full of parrot movie.
and it can't be full of anything else.
And I can't get rid of the parrot movie for 3 more weeks.
And I think that emails may start bouncing out of my mailbox.
And please don't send me anymore parrot movies.
many thanks to you.
another rushed, sticky keyboard update:
We're all still alive and shooting. We've been doing a bunch of interviews outside in the gardens surrounding the Baha'i House of Worship in Kampala, aside from being a stunning locale, it's also the quietest place in town (quiet, of course, being a relative term. I'm only dealing with trucks, planes, drumming, singing, and most of all a variety of birds that sound like chickens, donkeys, monkeys, cows and (of course) birds. And they have no manners at all. stupid interupting birds.
In other news, it seems that Patches O'toole, beloved soap-eating rat has died. Even worse, he seems to have died under our kitchen cabinets. Patches may be gone, but we're sure his odor will raise to haunt us again. Patches, we hardly knew ye.
(Service will be held tonight next to the stove; pineapple, groundnuts and a bar soap stolen form the hilton hotel in Addis Ababa will be served for refreshment. Out of respect for the dead, please leave your cats at home.)
more from the heart of the continent when something exciting actally happens.
Alright, so I've got 9 minutes on my interenet cafe time and a sticky keyboard, so this will be a quick, error-ridden post of my adventures thus far.
I went to Ethiopia for a day. It was awesome. We stayed at the hilton (thanks to Ethiopean airways) and met a crazy Italian lawyer who had been to 153 countries. He is my new hero.
The video crew (there are four of us) are safe and sound and staying in a little house near the Baha'i temple in Kampala (it's on Bahai Rd. you can't miss it).
The other night we noticed there were little teeth marks in the soap. and little muddy paw prints on our cel phones. so we put out some of that glue-y stuff that you're supposed to use to glue mice to the floor (why you would want to glue mice to your floor I have no idea) And then we set a mouse trap using soap for bait.
So in the middle of the night, our noctoural chum got up, stole the soap out of the trap (without setting it off) and then escaped from the mouse glue... or at least he mostly escaped. We call him "patches". In honour of our new friend I decided to go out and get a trim too. So I had my head shaved in a friend's salon. The women told him to do a good job so they could use my hair for their braiding...
Oh and then I went out today and sunburnt the top of my head. which was fun.
Oh and we're doing some video stuff too...you know, when we have time...and it's not raining.
oops, ran over time.. had to get another minute to send this sad blog. hope you all enjoy it, you owe me 500 shillings.
I'm going to Uganda. For a month. So posting may be light. Um, you know, like it has been lately.
So really nothing new... um...yeah. Carry on then.
(really though, I'm going to try my darndest to get some posts up while I'm in Uganda. but no promises. as per usual.)
