hey. just a couple of words, since i had to hide in a cybercafe. it's so INCREDIBLY hot and dusty here, in bamako (the capital of mali). actually, it was only 27 centigrades when i was leaving the catholic mission where i checked in this morning (after a horrible night in not-quite-a-room in one cheap hotel...).
Bamako is a love from the first sight, but a challenging one. last evening was wonderful - only a couple of hours but enought for a short walk and some discoveries:
...cinema vox is closed officialy and unofficialy they're showing the "x" movies (porns...) in the evenings
...there's a great lottery, explained by Assou. keep your fingers crossed - maybe i'll be rich by tonight ;)
...'duru' means 5 in bambara, the local language, but it means also 25fCFA, which means that they count francs by 5. in benin they count them by 25. interesting
...one evening in bamako was enough to meet one girl from holland, two senegalease, one basque (how do you spell it???) and a couple of maliens, of course...
but after an intense cultural week (cinema in ouagadougou, theatre populaire in koudougou, fete des masques and malinke music concert in bobo-dioulasso), i'm a bit tired. and the buzz of bamako is definately a challenge, even for me - the fan of big cities...
ok, i'm going out on the streets again. wish me luck
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