ooooh.. and it feels so good.
Tuesday November 11th 2003
I’ve got gas. Yes.. finally. I can cook. This is a huge relief. I really miss being able to prepare food for myself. I really like the food here, and I’m still sort of puzzled as to why people who come here complain.. I mean, there isn’t a huge variety, but what there is, is good.. and I’ve been finding out that all the best stuff if straight from people’s gardens. Most people only go the market to suppliment their diet, or get meat; the bulk of their food they grow themselves.. so a lot of the best stuff isn’t really grown for retail… that is a totally alien concept. I printed out a photo for Isadore (who I just found out spent some time in jail… more on that later) that I took during the ROLD assemblée general, and.. not that I asked, he brought over some fruits and veggies. One was some sort of weird eggplant thing…although, I’m not to sure about that. It sort of looks like a pepper (half way between the spicey kind, and the green kind), and tastes like an eggplant, but more bitter. The other, Izzy swore was a cherry. It was roughly the same shape as a cherry, and it had a pit, but a totally different texture and taste. It reminded me of a leechee (I have no idea how to spell it). Anyway, my plan is now to start swapping my technology services for the fruits and veggies that I can’t find in the market.
So Izzy, spent time in jail.. apparently 4 months or so. I’m a bit sketchy on the details, and who knows what is true…but this is what I heard. Izzy was driving some people around in Among M’bang, and he ended up with a ladies handbag that didn’t belong to him, which contained some money. So, after some sort of accusation, argument, or something like that, whoosh.. off to prison to wait for trial. 4 months later, the accuser never really showed up for any of the trial stuff, and no one could find her, so, apparently, they let him go… much thinner, and older than when he went in.