under my umbrella

[doremimi]

So drum working has been pretty interesting. each day i go to allissan's house and he teaches me a new step and then i try to do it. example, yesterday we did drawings on all the drums...like drawing these african huts and african back scenes...(these djembes are for tourists) he showed me how he likes them done and then i did some. Today

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[evilspeakers]

i know what you mean about the development question. if you want to see a complicated economic development model, check out somalia- they have a highly developed and extremely competitive telecommunications market. and i mean competitive. i read an article in le monde about an entrepeneur who lost a leg after a competitor hired someone to kill him with a rocket launcher.

oh, and did you see akon hurl that guy from the stage at a concert?

[doremimi]

haha, i didn't see akon hurl the guy but i heard about it. crazy rappers. =)
i haven't heard about somalia...guy was going to get killed with a rocket launcher? what kind of rocket launcher are we talking about?
is the telecommunications market all they have in somalia? i mean i know it's a poor country...so is that it's highest revenue?
how are you doing, btw? are you home yet??

[evilspeakers]

his leg was blown off by a RPG, the same kind that show down american black hawk helicopters in mogadishu.

somalia also has huge agro-produce shipping concerns, being a coastal country. banana shipments are often key in the country's internecine strife, attacked and seized in order to cut off so-and-so warlord's financial resources. interestingly, mogadishu's business district, the "somalian wall street" has passed through the country's civil wars untouched, simply because too much money runs through it.

btdubs, i'm back in MS, working for dr. forster. working a lot for dr. forster. when do you come back?

[doremimi]

btdubs?? what does that mean =) ill be back at the end of july =) why do you know so much about somalia??

[cheezbud21]

snoop dogg is going to be here this friday night at a club... i may go but probably not because the cover there on a normal night is $20... beh

[doremimi]

that's why you need a man. =) just kidding. if you go, let me know how he is, snoop dogg. and if you get a minute alone with him, tell him to look for me in dakar...hehe

[doremimi]

oh definitely makes sense. and it totally is how everyone thinks, except for those who have heard of another way of looking at things. before coming here i totally thought that way. i mean i couldn't help it really, i had no prior experience with different cultures and in seeing "good ideas" continuously failing...i completely understand. =) i'm surprised that the "they" thinks that only racists and crazy people think that...because seriously, almost everyone thinks that way

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[emmylo0]

I am cracking up so much at the thought of a tourist buying an "authentice african drum" that was made by a student at ole miss. hahahahaha :)

I am totally flying in for that concert so that I can marry Akon. I am sooooooo homesick for Dakar right now!

I'd be interested in hearing more about why you want to fight malaria with moustiquaires. I wrote an editorial/ rant against public health interventions that focus solely on mosquito nets so I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on why to use them :)

Nuyuma Djibi, Bass, ak waa telecentre!

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[doremimi]

i don't want to fight malaria w/moustiquaires...i don't even use one myself. i was just using them as an example that other people reading this would understand, ya know? only an example. no public intervention can focus itself mainly on just one thing. i mean if you want to give a pop. nets, you have to also have the resources to educate them on the importance and help them, and the time and patience...but really i don't see the nets as being useful here...i mean if everyone slept under a net every night for the rest of their lives the malaria rate would decrease for sure. but. if i ate according to the food triangle by the fda and stopped drinking and lived as far from pollution for the rest of my life i'd die ten years later than i will now. but. it's not my culture and not how i want to live. i think that's a very bad bad analogy. but i think you understand...or i hope you do! =) others might not

What means "developed"?

[anonymous]

Is this toilet paper and individual plate friend me? If not, I agree with your friend.

But add to the mix: Toilets that flush toilet paper, dishwashers, clothes dryers, automatic paper towel dispensers in public restrooms, automatic foam soap dispensers in public restrooms, toilet seat covers (ass gaskets as Caleb calls 'em) in public restrooms, purse hooks on doors in public restrooms, trash cans next to doors in public restrooms, water temperature control, drinkable tap water, and pretty places to play.

That'd be my idea of "developed." ...or just a sanitary bathroom (+ dishwashers, dryers, and pretty places to play). We should develop Mississippi.

Re: What means "developed"?

[anonymous]

ps, that was me.

-p

Re: What means "developed"?

[doremimi]

i figured it was you =) why arent you commenting under your name?? and no youre not my friend who thinks that. i was talking about this other american friend i have hehe geez. not but seriously i wasnt talking about you. =)

Re: What means "developed"?

[angelw_outwings]

cos I wasn't logged in, home-y.

geez'em petes.

ps: the hc website says to track your adventures at livejournal.com/users/doremimi just so you know.