I cant hide from creepy President Bush
Throwing rocks at dogs and bombs at civilians
Je ne peux pas échapper à l'affreux Président Bush - Lancers de pierres aux
chiens et envois de bombes sur les civils
Agadez, Niger
The days were 110 degrees and Pierre and I stayed clutched to the
air-conditioner. One day we went looking for the Internet Cafe and found a tiny room with
1 computer. The price was $12 an hour, and it seemed nothing much had changed from 4 years
ago when Niger's backbone to the internet operated at 112 kbts and 2 computers operating
on 56K modems tied up the entire bandwidth of the country.
I got up and went outside where I saw two, 20- something year old guys throwing stones
at a dog. One hit the animal and it yelped. I yelled at them and they said,"Its just a
dog", so I picked up a stone and drew my hand back to gesture throwing one at them, and
said,"Well, you're just dumb boys". Amazingly, they spoke English and we wound up talking
for awhile. They wouldn't stop asking me about America. They wanted to go there more than
any place on Earth. We also talked about the amazing amount of violence that has been done
throughout history in the name of religion. Ahhhg, That is oxymoronic humor! More violence
and wars are in the name of religion than anything else. Sure its ignorance at it's root,
but I'd hoped thousands of years would have been a type of teaching, or at least bred some
of it out.
When I left I reminded them to be good to animals.
That night Pierre ate
an animal and was food sick for many hours.
.....don't eat the animal. Pet the
animal.
Tout le monde compte merveilles à propos d'Agadez
mais je n'ai pas connecté avec cette petite ville. Le jour il fait 42 degrès et Pierre et
moi restons scotchés au climatiseur. Un jour, nous allons chercher le café internet et
trouvons une petite salle avec 1 ordinateur. Le prix est de 12 euros de l'heure, et on
dirait que rien n'a changé en 4 ans quand le Niger était raccordé au 'backbone' à 112
kbits/seconde et que 2 ordinateurs à 56k prenaient la bande-passante du pays au complet.
En partant, je leur
rappelle d'être bons envers les animaux.
Ce soir-là Pierre a mangé un animal et s'est
retrouvé malade pendant des heures... Ne mangez pas les animaux. Carressez-les.