in an attempt to escape the brainpower required to put together a meaningful blog post, ive compiled some recent tweets from my twitter* feed if you’re not already following me! Enjoy:
Arabic awesomeness: “Hubba hubba.” means “Step by step.”
300 gunmen on camels attacking two villages?!?! what is this, 2005??
hearing news of Chad women carrying children many kilometres across the Sudan border to access Darfur feeding centres,
“What are these foreign objects, I’ve never seen them – is it safe?” a sincere colleague commenting on the ice in his coke….
Winter has arrived, it’s 20°C and the Darfuris are wrapped up like eskimos…
Just visited a village where the local status symbol is a bicycle tyre pump. Awesome.
Touched down in a remote field site for one week & left my bag on the plane- guess I’m wearing a jalibya!
Attack helis keep zooming overhead this morning… is there something I don’t know?
UN quote of the week “While they are no longer ‘sectors’, i feel ‘cluster’ is too political, so i’ll use ‘enhanced sectors’ in the meantime”
Aforementioned BBQ cancelled RT @willswanson: … organizing an inter-agency BBQ can be like the Middle East peace process
just gonna pretend that guy who fired up his kalashnikov outside our compound was celebrating guy fawkes night. ugh.
Spent last night celebrating the end of my ’6 weeks with no diarrhea’ streak in style, the party continues today with ORS shots!
No. of UNAMID troops guarding loading of steel in EGN market: 20, No. of UNAMID troops confidence-building in my field site: 0
*Twitter is just another social networking site on the internet, yet I am increasingly amazed at what a great tool it is for advocacy, meeting and being challenged by like minded people and generally wasting time.
Eid mubarak everyone!!
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