Le Meridien Chari N'Djamena

... et ils m ont donc laisser partir. Je n aurai fait que la capital, en effet je suis arrive le vendredi ap-midi et comme les fonctionnaire font le Week-end chrétien et musulman, il vous est impossible de faire les document nécessaire a un voyage au Tchad soit l enregistrement et le permis de circuler. Dommage j avais trouvé une agence de voyage qui partait pour le désert de l ennedi le lendemain mais sans papier ...

... for the UN or other international organizations, or NGO's sponsored by foreign governments, the few hotels in town charge ridiculously high prices.About the place I stayed, Lonely Planet writes: "there is no power or water during the day, and the frequent comings and goings are a tad suggestive,but the location, right next to the market, is unbeatable!"It is Hirondelle hotel, a run down establishment where no major investment was made for the past 10 years!The ...

The first leg of the journey to Cam**oon's Extreme north**n province is best done by train, the Camrail company has an excellent ov**night trip on off**, and they even have first class wagons, complete with bedsheets,woolen blankets, a lavabo, and even a wall mirror to shave, but not airconditioned...sothat we have to open the window while moving in the night. But at ev**y station, someone has to get up and close it, sothat moskitos will not come inside ...

... troops entered N'djamena and engaged in combat with government troops near the parliament and the presidential palace. The shots from heavy artillery (which made the doors shake) could be heard from our guesthouse where we have had 4 international staff there for the past two days. It is not clear who controls the town, but Rebels seem to have the upper hand. Rebel tanks have been seen patroling the city. The RC and the team in Abeche maintain regular ...

... instead he poured me the first glass. A small gesture like this one is just one of many subtleties that have made me see that my host dad is a good man. Another example was the other day when he was sitting on the mat outside with my host mom, playing with their youngest child Mahamat, who is a bit older than six months, is definitely the favorite. Watching my host mom play with him and make happy noises at him like anyone would with their child back home ...

... home goes. Every morning (when I don't have school) I wake up, cook some breakfast, read, go get water, read some more, think about English classes for the next week, read, do crossword puzzles, go to the market to buy food for lunch or dinner depending on whether or not I cooked too much for breakfast. Then I hang out on my cot and read away the afternoon, do some yoga, maybe talk to some visitors, maybe the kids from the families next door come over and ...

... the holidays. I stayed with a very nice family who works for the American embassy and enjoyed great food, hot showers, and enough A/C to give me a cold, not that I mind at all. It was a great time, strange because I was living with Americans but they were not my family, and I think that made me more homesick than if I had stayed somewhere else. Of course, I miss everyone, and even though they called me, it's just never enough. I'm mostly ...

... made but it was something that would have fit Justin, so I decided since it already looked so 80s I would go all out - porting large pink earrings and blue eyeshadow with my blazer sleeves cuffed - so you'll understand when you see the pictures, if I can ever get them up on the computer. A few announcements: Thank you so much everyone who has written me. I'm so frustrated right now because I have to get ready for ...

... place are part of a missionary language organization which works to write down spoken African languages (but that's totally extraneous because we just use it as a hotel). We passed the time there doing ice-breakers, getting to know one another, getting used to Turkish toilets, and marveling at everything in Chad. We also got to visit the Peace Corps office, which is really nice - air conditioned ...

... e locked in a metal cage and then being shaken about, setting off each day at 7 am and stopping just once during the day before finding a place to camp at sunset. We w**e without running wat** to wash ourselves and aft** more than 7days of +40 degres heat and clouds of sand billowing in through the windows, we w**e glad of our bucket show** in Ndjamena. The landscape was absolutely beautiful, desolate des**t areas and thatched hut villages springing from nowh**e ...