Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Nigeria has given me abundant opportunities to enjoy one of my favorite travel pastimes: being wrong. I enjoy places and people that confront me with the obvious idiot falsehood of my presuppositions and expectations. Nigeria won't stop doing this and as a result, I am starting to love the place. We have been delayed in Maiduguri by hospitality. There is nothing wrong with the car or breathtaking or shockingly AIDs related in the state of Borno; but our hosts won't let us leave and their insistence on our continued lingering and shared time is not the performative and obligatory type required in some cultures; it is real and we don't feel like refusing it.
So, we will continue hanging out at the National Air Force's Mess Hall and getting ourselves put on TV and eating locust. Whenever we get regular electricity--the lack of which is the only real maddening downfall of this place--I will give some flesh to our pursuits in Maiduguri and our growing unwillingness to leave the country that we were trying so hard not to visit. Also, I will do my level headed best to make sure that the Television broadcast that features our project will eventually end up on this website.
So, we will continue hanging out at the National Air Force's Mess Hall and getting ourselves put on TV and eating locust. Whenever we get regular electricity--the lack of which is the only real maddening downfall of this place--I will give some flesh to our pursuits in Maiduguri and our growing unwillingness to leave the country that we were trying so hard not to visit. Also, I will do my level headed best to make sure that the Television broadcast that features our project will eventually end up on this website.
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