Wednesday, October 15, 2008

equatorial guinea!!!!!!

why was i up at 5am?? why am i up at 5am blogging?? i actually woke up b/c i had a burst of energy, so figured i'd do work (i.e. looking up community org ncbw can work w/... as i'm part of a 3-woman team who's trying to re energize the membership & our chapter of the organization). but clearly i'm using the time to blog...

so yesterday evening went to a reception honoring the independence of equatorial guinea from spain (oct 12, 1968). a friend of mine who works in the embassy invited me, & i'm glad he did! had the chance to bashfully say "hi, nice to meet" to ambassador (Purification Angue Ondo)... per my friend's translations she asked me if i spoke spanish & if i ate meat. the latter question caught me off guard, but my friend & i agreed she wasn't callin me fat, just asking if i ate meat b/c she actually cooked all of the food that was being served at the reception! what ambassador does that?? what a woman!

i also saw the ambassador of angola (Josefina Pitra Diakité)... didn't say hi, but from what i could tell she was very happy & her hair was dope! it was like twisted & pinned up in an intricate way...

i did, however, speak with the ambassador of equatorial guinea's massage therapist!!! apparently he's kind of a big deal & has high calibre clients (i.e. 1 day some lawyer ) he's from Côte d'Ivoire & was telling me about his experience going back to his country after a decade & seeing how much it's changed (not necessarily for the good)... after talking to him for a bit longer he offered me a free/trial body massage- score! i looooooooooooooooooove getting massages so should be great! (when i told smoe about my latest & greatest appointment he made a face)...

lastly, so my throat has been sketchy all week, but after tasting the homemade ginger beer (literally homemade like in recycles water bottles) it burned so much that my throat felt all better!

we were on a rooftop on constitution ave on a very clear, still nite & had an gorgeous view of downtown dc, took a (touristy) pic w/ the capital in the backdrop. me & this lady from the state department were talking about how we had to wait until the crowd dwindled b/c it's just distasteful to take such a pics on the roof!

in conclusion i've always had an affinity for the middle east, but the past year or 2 i've been checkin out the lovely countries of the motherland... especially uganda & ghana (only b/c my roomies' people are from there)...

song o the day
home is where the hatred is (gil scott heron)... this song is so great, he's great & i feel like this has been a song o the day before. oh, well

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