What a Wednesday!

Evan

Wow! What a Wednesday! 

It was election day, we had the day off school and I got to sleep in. Midmorning, Evan, Midgley number 5 (see previous posts), asked me to come around to wrestle because he had spinach to eat the previous evening. He proudly told his mom afterwards that he had beaten me badly!

I also made my first-ever omelette that actually looked like an omelette when I was finished (which I was very excited about) and soon after found out that we were possibly living through another attempted coup d'etat. This morning on my way to school the barbed-wire bejewelled barriers were out, the traffic cops replaced by AK-47 toting soldiers, and there was a quiet rumbling coming from the direction of the military base at the airport, where the rebel soldiers were holed out.

Particularly amusing (in a tragic kind of way), is the fact that the present president, himself installed in office close on two years ago with the support of the military, has threatened to "crush any mutiny" from the dissidents who once supported him. Schools have been evacuated, word on the street is that an attack is imminent, but an uneasy calm persists. Updates to follow...

My new mode of transport - not the best if trying to outrun trouble (I still think in pictures) ...