Novotel N Djamena La Tchadienn N'Djamena

... tait impossible de voyager avec eux. Autre précision, il faisait chaud, j avais sans cesse soif et j ai compris en regardant le thermometre qui indiquait 44 C pourquoi j avais soif. Autre tracasserie, au Tchad il faut un permis photo je m en suis passe mais cela est très risqué vu le nombre de militaire. Donc pas de photo de la cathédrale de près, ni du musée ni du palais présidentiel : c etait un nid a militaire.

... are lousy, no aircon,no cabinet, no mirror, some even have no windows.A no frill place.But the cheapest option in N'djamena.Luxury hotels with nice swimming pools (day tickets available for 15 euros) are the "Méridien", the "Novotel", and the "Kempinski Libya", financed by Chad's influential northern neighbour. The meeting place of the expats here is simply called "Bistro de N'djamena, well stocked with French wine bottles and goose liver paté. My next trip is ...

... disturb our sleep..!In the morning, I realize that the landscape has completely changed, its now the savannah type,more dry.At kilomet** 843 (out of 900, the journey takes 17 hours!) we have a technical problem, and the train has to stop for a while, time to visit a local village that hardly gets to see west**n tourists, unless the train has this kind of problems, of course, and that happens quite frequently, but maybe not always at KM 843.!Ngaound**e ...

... contact (through the still-functioning land-line) with the team in NDJ. The first evacuations that were planned by the UN and France could not happen because of the increase in hostilities. For the moment, the instructions are for people to not leave their homes. The information which has been broadcast in the media reports that the rebels promised not to attack foreigners or the French army. Security situation for our staff: The 4 staff are at the "French ...

... what first made me see she was a good person. Mahamat is really cute, and has finally gotten used to me now that he has peed on me and pooped in my house. His favorite activities include putting things in his mouth, dancing and being thrown up in the air. The older kids sometimes fight over him he is so loved. The next youngest child is Souleyman, who I nicknamed "Sultan" when I first got here because he would march around with his big belly, eat alot, and ...

... pictures for my walls, take a bucket bath, cook dinner, listen to the radio, wash dishes, then go hang out with the proviseur's family, where we either listen to music or watch satellite TV. Mostly, I feel like I do nothing but read, if I'm motivated, in French, but its funny how this whole process is so slow; you do very little sometimes and yet I still get letters from home saying, "we're so proud of you", etc. And it is hard. I definitely experienced ...

... that people are keeping in touch and not getting intimidated by the fact that I'm supposedly doing all this great work in Africa. Before I left site, I was the one who was in need of help, rather than the one giving any. I have started teaching 6eme and 5eme English, but we are on strike so only a few students show up. They've explained to me that it's alright if I teach during the strike, though there may be times when they ask me not ...

... and want to write as many of you as possible, and hopefully those letters will get to you by Christmas since I'm sending them via our trainer who's flying home to America on the 15th. If not, it might be 2 months before you get anything from me because we only have mail runs ever 6 weeks. That means if you sent a package, and I haven't gotten anything and it's the last day to get something, I won't get it until ...

... a nice lounge, real toilets, computers with internet, and a TV with DVD player. It's Sunday morning, and my host sister and I just finished breakfast which consisted of egg and fried little doughnut like balls - good but greasy! My host family speaks French so I'm very lucky as the others are with families who speak Chadian Arabic which is very difficult. My family has 5 boys and 3 girls. The two ...

... to beautiful sand dunes varying from golden yellow to flat white salt pans into t**racotta orange dunes. The sand was sculpted and it was really breathtaking. The des**t floor can dip suddenly into an oasis of green palm trees swaying in the hot 'breeze'. You can drive for ages and see nothing and then out of nowh**e a man appears, dressed in bright colours, striding across the des**t. As you approach a village you start to see families on camels and men on ...