eid!

heya,

tomorrow is eid in niamey. i know you guys are doing it wednesday (icbwayland.org), so i think ill be able to call my mom right after namaaz and talk to most of you!

the computers were down, hence the lack of blog entries. i have class soon, but this weekend was awesome. for now lets just say we were out til 4 in the morning saturday, i got singing lessons from a famous singer here and i played some softball.

love naye/ ayesha

nigerien dish

so they have this rice and bean dish here, and you put caramelized onions and a chili sauce on it. its called SHINKAFADAWOCKEY (sp?). no joke, thats what its called. i like to randomly shout it...

love naye/ayesha

allllsoooo

ps i saw 5 flattened out frogs today.

love naye/ayesha

cars

so there are a lot of scooters here, along with a lot of cars. most are hatchbacks, like the taxis... and there are soooo so many taxis here, probably 5 taxis will pass you in one direction in a minute, no exxageration. they all stall at the petite marche, and its a sea of taxis. then there are 3 varieties of toyota sedans that exist. then there are the random cars that you look twice at. like the one bmw x5, or the one vw suv, or the couple of toyota suvs.

but this is what makes me kind of really happy. they have one variety of minivans here, the TOYOTA PREVIA. and it only comes in one color, that sky-silver blue that we had when i was a kid. same interior and everything. and ive also seen a couple of party jeep cherokees! love it.

love naye/ayesha

PICTASSSSS

a fellow nigerien

tamumu's blog:
http://www.blogabond.com/TripView.aspx?TripID=2211

love naye/ayesha

a note on the wildlife

so outside my building, there are always frogs. some are big, some are small. i might not always see one hopping along, but i frequently see them flattened out into the dirt, with their guts hanging out of their body and flies all over it;.

i rode a camel! we went to the baleyara market outside of the city, where they sell livestock. we paid the guy who owned the camel 5 bucks and i took it for a ride... pictures to come i hope!

love naye/ayesha

malaria madness!

AND THE FIRST VICTIM IS...

hasi the conquerer!! aka my roomie!

how sad, it takes 2 weeks for malaria to start showing symptoms, so she must've gotten it right when we got to niamey. shes a trooper though. she went to the clinic for 2 nights, and by the second night she was as good as new... kind of. shes on meds and feels nauseous still. but shes alive and fairly well!

she gave me some advice after her experience: don't get malaria.

love ayesha