My weekend has been mostly spent on the road to and from Columbus, Ohio aka little Mogadishu! Somalis literally gather there like ants. To top it all I went on a day when they had a gathering at one of the local conference centres to discuss 'how to bring peace and stability' to Somalia. Go figure!
The highlight of the trip surprisingly was the trip itself, as in getting there and coming back. I forgot how much fun roadtrips were, especially when there's music and everyone is cracking jokes and generally just being silly. More of a personal highlight was the opportunity to see my father, who I hadn't seen for about 2 years and my uncles and cousins from my mum's side of the family. I hadn't seen them since 2003, which was the last time I visited Ohio.
I came back to DC and went straight to work, which has been ever-occurrent since then! I've managed to squeeze a French language course into my schedule. I was all giddied up when I saw the course on audio in my local library and they had all sorts of levels. I needed an intermediate one to build my level to a more advanced level so since then I've been doing the course at home and it is so much fun. It got to the point where I actually choose going home over socialising with my friends.
But my birthday weekend is around the corner though, so I suppose I'll have to peek out of my petit hole at some point!
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