ktravula http://ktravula.wordpress.com the Nigerian spirit in an American bottle - A travelogue. 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yoruba-names http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/11257e04818e933f2c88246f3518ca09?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png ktravula http://ktravula.wordpress.com More Things I Should Have Brought From Home http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=518 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=518 518 2009-08-21 15:15:50 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_lock 1250867751 _edit_last 2145678 Payback Time http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=295 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=295 295 2009-08-19 03:37:03 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_lock 1250654832 _edit_last 2145678 Office Hours http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=414 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=414 414 2009-08-20 19:45:18 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1250797523 Awkward Signs http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=416 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=416 416 2009-08-20 22:41:32 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1250808094 Ackward Signs http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=417 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=417 417 2009-08-20 22:42:02 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_lock 1250808124 _edit_last 2145678 Some Awkward Signs http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=418 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=418 418 2009-08-20 23:05:49 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_lock 1250809554 _edit_last 2145678 From A Distance: The World From Above http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=419 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=419 419 2009-08-20 22:44:32 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_lock 1250808642 _edit_last 2145678 Campus By Day, By Night http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=834 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=834 834 2009-08-29 05:27:51 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_lock 1251523675 _edit_last 2145678 Girls! http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=1181 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=1181 1181 2009-09-04 20:21:43 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_lock 1252096432 _edit_last 2145678 Top Ten Remarks From America http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=1212 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=1212 1212 2009-09-05 23:02:19 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1252192219 To Biodun http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=1283 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=1283 1283 2009-09-07 11:39:39 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_lock 1252323583 _edit_last 2145678 Brown University Connections http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=1349 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=1349 1349 2009-09-10 00:17:38 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_lock 1252541859 _edit_last 2145678 Why Do I Shop On iTunes? http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=1351 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=1351 1351 2009-09-09 23:46:31 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_lock 1252540111 _edit_last 2145678 The Begining http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/hello-world/ Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:40:11 +0000 on this day when we went for the Orientation Programme for Departing Fulbright Scholars from Nigeria, at the US consulate in Lagos. It goes like this. A bunch of students in the United States had missed their Fulbright application because of an error on the part of the American postal company FedEx who didn't deliver on time as promised. According to her, the company then offered to pay for their tuition in lieu of Fulbright which had subsequently closed the program when the deadline passed. The students looked at themselves, then at the FedEx boss and asked, "Seriously, do you really mean that we would be better off being called "FedEx Scholars" for the rest of our lives?" Yea, I found it funny too, in a sad way. You just don't want to be in their shoes.]]> 1 2009-08-10 23:40:11 2009-08-10 23:40:11 open open hello-world publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1251647517 2 chrisogunlowo@gmail.com http://www.aloofaa.blogspot.com 41.204.224.13 2009-08-13 12:07:53 2009-08-13 12:07:53 1 0 0 120 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/counting-up/ 72.233.96.143 2009-08-26 01:38:50 2009-08-26 01:38:50 1 pingback 0 0 203 claricekxj@gmail.com http://wso2.org/wiki/display/~billbartmann20 208.43.122.171 2009-09-02 15:37:45 2009-09-02 15:37:45 1 0 0 About http://ktravula.wordpress.com/about/ Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:40:11 +0000 This is a blog created to detail my experiences in the United States as I encounter them on this my first to the country on a Fulbright FLTA program. This is also my first time out of the African continent. Destinations: London, Boston, Providence, St. Louis, Edwardville, Madison, Washington DC, New York and a few other places. FLTA is the Foreign Language Teaching Assistant program of Fulbright, aimed at trading in culture and lingistic knowledge for more international intercultural understanding among nations. All photos and texts on this blog (and on the Picassa photo abum linked to it) are protected by copyright and should not be used without permission. Here is who I am.]]> 2 2009-08-10 23:40:11 2009-08-10 23:40:11 open open about publish 0 0 page _edit_lock 1251914058 _edit_last 2145678 _wp_page_template default Gambit http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/gambit/ Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:51:39 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/gambit/ aburo/friend, and his first observation was that iTraveller rhymed with iGwatala and to him, my great copywriter brother, it already offered itself as an appropriate tag for my first online travelogue. Then he dropped a few more, all in fast succeeding sequence of brilliance. "What of 'Ajala'"? he asked. I laughed. Ajala is the Yoruba colloquial tag for those known for frequent travelling, especially across international boundaries. Not for novices like me who could boast to have travelled only to Kenya, East Africa (in 2005 on a MacArthur Foundations grant). If you want a true Ajala, find this guy, who recently won the CNN African Journalist Award in the Arts and Culture category. Now, a few key lessons from that one Kenyan experience which might be useful this time: 1. Always sit by the plane window. You never know when you'll fly over a very beautiful lake or a nice, spectacular scenery; in this case, it was Lake Victoria, Africa's largest, and perhaps the most beautiful, breathtaking view from the sky. 2. Never assume that traffic comes from the same side you are used to in Nigeria. I almost got knocked over by bicycles and vehicles on the streets of Eldoret approaching from the right. I know for a fact that traffic tends to come from the right in Britain as well. And, who knows, I might just catch a sneak-peak into England on my connecting flight. 3. Always prepare your taste buds for new gastronomical experiences. You never know when you'll come by Chapatti, Ugali, Nyama Choma or Tusker beer on a KLM flight to Nairobi. And so now after placing my last book, clothing, sculpture, CD, perfume and cold battling aboniki in this big bag, I’m sitting here in Lagos, facing the screen, my new blog, a travelogue with one simple tagline: “My Nigerian Slice of the American Experience” or “A Nigerian Nomad in the New World”. Have your pick. Who am I? I’m a young Nigerian male on a Fulbright grant heading to the United States. My last blog is/was here. Yes, I've also tried my hands on creative writing, and freelance journalism, and I'm now full time into both literary and non-literary translation. For now, I will stick to ktravula as a pat name for this blog. It is after all a travelogue, the travelling travails and triumphs of KT, packed and packaged live from the United States of America.]]> 3 2009-08-11 00:51:39 2009-08-11 00:51:39 open open gambit publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1252240175 _edit_last 2145678 4 yemitubosun@yahoo.com 80.248.9.50 2009-08-13 13:53:46 2009-08-13 13:53:46 1 0 0 20 serenataph@yahoo.com 41.219.195.71 2009-08-15 23:58:20 2009-08-15 23:58:20 1 0 0 The Great Border Patrol http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/i-flew-for-24-hours/attachment/12082009781/ Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:42:14 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/120820097812.jpg 18 2009-08-13 04:42:14 2009-08-13 04:42:14 open open 12082009781 inherit 14 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/120820097812.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/120820097812.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1024";s:6:"height";s:3:"768";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:87:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/120820097812.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"3.2";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:5:"N70-1";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250057104";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"4.5";s:3:"iso";s:3:"250";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:8:"0.059213";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} I flew for 24 hours... http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/i-flew-for-24-hours/ Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:50:44 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=14 Six hours Dull time spent at the London Heathrow Airport terminal killing boredom, and scheming how (if only mentally, spiritually or metapThe Great Border Patrolhysically) to beat up, mug, harass, embarrass, curse, challenge, cajole, discomfit or at least mentally ignore the two UK border patrol officers who both (without speaking to one another) repeated the same painful and insulting words that we (my female co-passenger from Lagos and I) could never be given the permission to enter the UK like we had pleaded, to shop or sight-see, or even just to stretch our tired legs for the very few hours that we would otherwise spend lazing around the lounge of the airport while we wait for the boarding time of our next flight out of their town, even when we showed them our American visas and boarding passes = five hours London - Logan International Airport, Boston (by air) = Seven hours Time spent waiting for bags to appear from the underground tunnel = One hour Boston - Brown University, Rhode Island (by road) = One and a half hours. Time spent checking in, meeting my fellow scholars, having smalltalk, and drooling over this superfast campus broadband/WiFi, and checking out the great old songs by Sonny Okosuns and other matters on the fastest loading YouTube I've ever seen, while forgetting that a delicious Pizza (eating for the first time) left cold is not always so delicious anymore, even in America, and discovering that I am indeed lucky to have been chosen to go on this trip, which I won't trade for anything in the world right now as my phone buzzes to tell me that I have received two more text messages from Nigeria without having to change my phone or MTN line, and that the last call I received was also on this same line, charged to the caller like a local call to no liability to me = Four hours Yea, I know, that makes it all more than 24hours if you add them all up. It's 12.33am here at the moment, and I assume by what I see on my Naija-set wristwatch that it's 6.33am at home. I have indeed spent more than 24 hours traveling, and due to the interesting explanation of geography that I've been flying in the same direction as the sun, I have cheated myself and got into a big debt of about six hours on non-sleep. I've got to sleep now. Debt must be paid. This is America, after all. America the beautiful.
(if only mentally, spiritually or metapThe Great Border Patrolhysically)
]]> 14 2009-08-13 04:50:44 2009-08-13 04:50:44 open closed i-flew-for-24-hours publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1250611565 _edit_last 2145678 3 yemitubosun@yahoo.com 80.248.9.50 2009-08-13 13:49:42 2009-08-13 13:49:42 1 0 0 5 gbuji12@yahoo.com http://twitter.com/Lordkings 72.178.131.168 2009-08-13 14:50:46 2009-08-13 14:50:46 1 0 0 How Not To Brush Your Teeth in America http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/how-not-to-brush-your-teeth-in-america/ Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:44:48 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=30 they were: Colgate Total Whitening Colgate Total Advanced Whitening Colgate Total Advanced Fresh Colgate Total Advanced Clean Colgate Whitening Oxygen Bubbles Colgate Total Mint Stripe Colgate MaxFresh with Mouthwash Beads Colgate MaxFresh with Mini Breath Strips Colgate Cavity protection Colgate Whitening Paste Right! I went for Close-up instead. Luckily, there was only one kind: CLOSE-UP Freshening Red Gel.]]> 30 2009-08-13 15:44:48 2009-08-13 15:44:48 open open how-not-to-brush-your-teeth-in-america publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1251647416 _edit_last 2145678 6 chrisogunlowo@gmail.com http://www.aloofaa.blogspot.com 41.219.243.87 2009-08-13 16:54:25 2009-08-13 16:54:25 1 0 0 7 bukkies@yahoo.com 89.204.226.37 2009-08-13 19:02:03 2009-08-13 19:02:03 1 0 0 8 bumight@gmail.com http://www.bumight.com 69.140.12.121 2009-08-13 22:36:35 2009-08-13 22:36:35 expanded your options!]]> 1 0 0 10 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/i-should-have-brought-from-home/ 72.233.96.152 2009-08-14 11:36:10 2009-08-14 11:36:10 1 pingback 0 0 15 bukkies@yahoo.com 89.204.246.86 2009-08-14 19:03:03 2009-08-14 19:03:03 1 0 0 16 tolu.ogunlesi@gmail.com 41.219.199.149 2009-08-15 06:17:02 2009-08-15 06:17:02 1 0 0 About the Toiletiquettes http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/toiletiquettes/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:39:57 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=32 WARNING: Article may not be suitable for someone with food in their hands. I had got this idea to write about the European/American toilet since my British Airways flight from Lagos, when the numerous signs in the airplane's loo got me seriously thinking about British humour. But today, on return from the Loo in the Brown University Inn in the hallway of my residence, I threw away procrastination and set to put it down once and for all. The triggering factor was a little clean tissue paper left carelessly on one side of the toilet seat. You see, I am from Nigeria. I shouldn't have to say that again, but when I lived on campus in the University of Ibadan, none of the toilets in Mellanby Hall was ever good enough to sit on at any time of the day. It was horrible early in the morning. It was horrible late at night. It was triple horrible during the day when the many strange asses from all the neighbouring halls of residence, and even from the streets, came, bearing their little ugly gifts when no one was looking. The real reason for this trouble was of course the absence of stable power supply to pump adequate water to supply the toilets basins. Thus most of the time, the was a load of stuff waiting for any visitor to the place, which was never a pleasant sight. The cleaning women came around sometimes twice everyday, yet the loads were back there in less than ten minutes after they leave. So having learnt to do the bathroom business #2 without sitting on the toilet bowl since early undergrad, I immediately understand the sight of tissue paper lying on the bowl in a public toilet. The curious thing about this one instance however was that the bowl was neither dirty nor was the tissue, yet someone who had been there before me had been disgusted enough to lay the bowl with a layer of tissue to protect himself from the perceived dirt of a toilet clean enough for my Nigerian eye that has really been around. Quite curious, that. What do you think? [caption id="attachment_303" align="alignleft" width="300" caption=""I think he's gonna be sick!""]"I think he's gonna be sick!"[/caption] I have now picked out that scrap sheet of paper on which I had written my observations about the British Airways toilet, gleaned from their ubiquitous signs on the plane toilet wall. Here are the many of them, just the signs. But before I give them, let me tell you another joke from that little flight experience. Since my bag was already carefully stowed away in the upper locker, I didn't have any sheet of paper on which to write, so I rifled through the magazine space in front of me for a scrap sheet. I found it, and it looked like an open ended envelope not used by anyone. Unknown to me, the looks of horror and amazement in the eyes of Jeffrey the American accountant who sat in the other seat beside me, and the air hostess on the aisle who had just given me a tray filled with American Airline food was because the little white "envelope" I picked out was used only in very specific circumstances. As I examined it, they looked more horrified. Then Jeff said, quite helpfully. "Erm, I think that is used when people are gonna be sick." And it all made sense. I had just taken a bite out of the food, and they were concerned that I might be ready to throw up any moment. "No," I replied, smiling. "I'm not throwing up. I just need a scrap sheet to write on.". She was relieved, and so was he. And Jeff and I went on to become great company for the duration of the flight, and who knows, I might take him up soon on his invitation for me to come back to Boston for a nice city tour. Here are The Toiletiquettes, instructions/texts on the British and later American Airways toilet walls. 1. Discarding anything other than toilet tissue can lead to leaks and create a safety hazard. 2. Please use the trash container for anything other than toilet tissue. 3. 115v 60hz. 4. Crew call. 5. Tissues and cups. 6. No Cigarette Disposal. Push. Waste Disposal 7. Air sick bags. Panty pads. (And different kinds of toilet rolls. Shouldn't someone tell the queen that I don't need to wipe my balls.) 8. As a courtesy to other passengers, please wipe down the basin after use. 9. Freshorize: 2 in 1 handwash. 10. For your safety, this toilet is equipped with a smoke detection system. Federal law provides for a penalty of up to $2000 for tampering with the smoke detector installed in this lavatory.]]> 32 2009-08-14 03:39:57 2009-08-14 03:39:57 open open toiletiquettes publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1251647369 _edit_last 2145678 9 lizughoro@yahoo.com 41.184.22.70 2009-08-14 09:04:04 2009-08-14 09:04:04 1 0 0 Smoked salmon, dark bread and lox bits http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/the-menu/attachment/13082009842/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:42:06 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/13082009842.jpg 42 2009-08-14 04:42:06 2009-08-14 04:42:06 open open 13082009842 inherit 41 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/13082009842.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1024";s:6:"height";s:3:"768";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:86:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/13082009842.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"3.2";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:5:"N70-1";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250191251";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"4.5";s:3:"iso";s:3:"500";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:8:"0.059213";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/13082009842.jpg The Menu http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/the-menu/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:46:53 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=41 This evening at the international house, we had a very nice dinner with a theme called "The American Special". All the food served was supposed to be representative of the American cuisine. There was rice (Thank God), and a large but tender beef (didn't someone tell me that beef is no longer so popular in America just because of the fear of mad cow?), chicken cooked in nice juice (yea, they called it juice), and bread/butter. There was also wine (1995), and lemonade. And a dessert of fine fruit cake (which I didn't partake of. My brother, Chris Ihidero has warned me of the dire consequences of too much sugar on the sexual organs of the male. Please don't ask me to elaborate. Ask him.) There was also smoked salmon, cream cheese, capers, dark bread and lox bits. And salad. And salad dressings. Smoked Salmon Earlier in the morning, there was bread, couscous, more pizza, coffee, decaf, cream, whiteners, sugar, strawberry (what a delight), and grapes (no, not that one related to the orange but three times bigger than it. These ones are small, juicy balls of nice tasting berry). There were other food items I couldn't name because I was too hungry to ask. I got my share of couscous (because that was one of the only ones I could recognize, and went about my business). Some unanswered questions on my mind: 1. Why are the carrots I ate on the plane shaped like iyeye? They tasted like carrots all right, so I believed the guy who served me and said they were good for my eyes. But why do they look like berries instead of their phallic dignity, or at least the coin size they assume when diced? 2. Is the chicken I ate on the plane a cloned kind? Or why would it taste so tender and smooth? 3. Is zucchini, (Thanks Jeff), pumpkin seeds, and egusi (melon seeds) related in any way? I'd be surprised if they are not. And if my eyes don't deceive me, those little seeds on the plane bread looked just as melon seeds would look if they were only that small. 4. Does (airplane) pizza taste like chappati if I only eat the doughy parts? 5. Is it not because I have taken too much coffee today that I'm at the computer at this moment when I should be sleeping and preparing for another busy day tomorrow? Today, I mean. Isn't it past 12am already! The most interesting part of tomorrow/today's event is at 3.30pm: a visit to Rhode Island State House and Providence Place to meet with the Lieutenant Governor of the state. Sounds promising. Should I wear a cap? Maybe not.]]> 41 2009-08-14 04:46:53 2009-08-14 04:46:53 open open the-menu publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1251647302 29 rayosword@yahoo.com http://all4words.blogspot.com 41.184.49.132 2009-08-17 10:16:32 2009-08-17 10:16:32 1 0 0 57 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/notes-to-self/ 66.135.48.207 2009-08-20 00:30:00 2009-08-20 00:30:00 1 pingback 0 0 147 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/a-short-foodlist-of-ps/ 72.233.96.149 2009-08-28 01:37:57 2009-08-28 01:37:57 1 pingback 0 0 Smoked Salmon and Lox Bits http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/the-menu/13082009842-2/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:50:52 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/130820098421.jpg 49 2009-08-14 04:50:52 2009-08-14 04:50:52 open open 13082009842-2 inherit 41 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/130820098421.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/130820098421.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1024";s:6:"height";s:3:"768";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:87:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/130820098421.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"3.2";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:5:"N70-1";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250191251";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"4.5";s:3:"iso";s:3:"500";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:8:"0.059213";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Smoked Salmon http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/the-menu/13082009842-3/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:53:50 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/130820098422.jpg 53 2009-08-14 05:53:50 2009-08-14 05:53:50 open open 13082009842-3 inherit 41 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/130820098422.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/130820098422.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1024";s:6:"height";s:3:"768";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:87:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/130820098422.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"3.2";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:5:"N70-1";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250191251";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"4.5";s:3:"iso";s:3:"500";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:8:"0.059213";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} I Should Have Brought From Home http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/i-should-have-brought-from-home/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:35:58 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=55 Specs. While walking through the aisle of the "Colgate" supermarket yesterday, I saw a stand of dark shade spectacles which we in Nigeria would ordinary buy off an aboki vendor for a price starting from 300naira. I couldn't literally believe my eyes when the price tag on one of those read about $22.70 or so. Okay. 300naira (usually written as N300) is equal only to about $2, and $22.70 is equal to like N3632 at the rate of N160 to the dollar. And that is not the most expensive one. 2. Umbrella. If I had known that the raining season in Nigeria was a sensible pointer to the season in the United States as well, I would have saved myself the trouble of a few wet outings. This is the United States after all, and we can not call on the Sango priest to "hold the hand of the rain" preventing it from falling on one part of town. On the bright side, it's raining only water. Not snow, yet. 3. Toothpaste. Well, if you read my earlier post on buying Close-up, this one shouldn't be hard for you to fathom. In spite of all the signs: "Bigger size, better value", "Anticavity flouride toothpaste", "cleans, whitens and freshens", "with mouthwash", "Freshening red gel" among many others competing for my attention on it's packaging, I can't help but feel that a product that goes all the way to try to appeal to me must have something intrinsically lacking in character. I could be wrong. 4. A digital camera. Yea, I know. Dumb of me, right? My earlier bought cannon camera had miraculously walked out of my room a few days before I left home. Those things sometimes have a mind of their own. But now that I have my Nokia phone fully charged, I take it along with me as my digital camera. At least until Saturday when I get to go to the mall for a little shopping. Watch out for some great photos. Plus, lucky us, there is a commisioned photographer (the director's son) who has been taking so many shots. He has promised to upload them all online and provide us links. 5. A table clock. Not for anything fancy, but if I knew I'd have so much space as I now have in the lodging at Brown University, I'd have brought that to put on my table. And I would have set the time to Nigerian time so that I know immediately what time it is at home when my phone rings. Right now, I have to check my mobile phone's world time, or check my laptop for the world clock. Not so bad. And speaking of time and time zones, I have found it rather convenient that when it is 7.30pm here, it is 12.30 over in Nigeria, when MTN's Extra Cool begins. How nice to find that people could actually call me from Lagos or Ibadan at night without having to pay a dime. And I get to receive it at 7.30pm and not at 12.30am when I should be having deserved sleep. Yea, I can now receive your Extra Cool calls, but when it's 10pm here, I gorra go to bed, and you be thinking of doing same. But I'm always glad that we can share the jetlags together. You stay up all night to call me while I still struggle with the six hours of my biological time clock still struggling to get even from all the traveling with the sun.]]> 55 2009-08-14 11:35:58 2009-08-14 11:35:58 open open i-should-have-brought-from-home publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1251644693 _edit_last 2145678 11 chrisogunlowo@gmail.com http://www.aloofaa.blogspot.com 41.219.210.56 2009-08-14 15:41:42 2009-08-14 15:41:42 1 0 0 14 bukkies@yahoo.com 89.204.246.86 2009-08-14 18:41:18 2009-08-14 18:41:18 1 0 0 img_0040 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/pictures/img_0040/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:25:52 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0040.jpg 59 2009-08-14 13:25:52 2009-08-14 13:25:52 open open img_0040 inherit 58 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0040.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0040.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"2736";s:6:"height";s:4:"3648";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:22:"height='96' width='72'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0040.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250200760";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"125";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:6:"0.0125";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Reading Obituary http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/pictures/img_0040-2/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:32:36 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_00401.jpg 61 2009-08-14 13:32:36 2009-08-14 13:32:36 open open img_0040-2 inherit 58 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_00401.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_00401.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"2736";s:6:"height";s:4:"3648";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:22:"height='96' width='72'";s:4:"file";s:84:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_00401.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250200760";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"125";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:6:"0.0125";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} A few of the students on the campus tour http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/pictures/img_0038/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:54:10 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0038.jpg 63 2009-08-14 13:54:10 2009-08-14 13:54:10 open open img_0038 inherit 58 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0038.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0038.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0038.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250200577";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"250";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:5:"0.004";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} On Augustus Stout Van Wickle http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/pictures/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:59:06 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=58 The Brown University campus is a beauty. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the campus has a collection of some really beautiful buildings, monuments and statues. It is the seventh oldest University in the United States, so most of the buildings there are old, yet strong and still standing, thanks to constant renovation and repairs. A few of the students on the campus tour Yesterday, while getting a guided tour of the campus, we came across this wall dedicated to a man called Augustus Stout Van Wickle who, by his profile on the wall, was an important personality in Providence, and who contributed money to build the gate while he was the president of a bank. He died in June 1898 from gunshot wounds during a clay pigeon shoot. The text on the wall reads: "In memory of Augustus Stout Van Wickle of the class of 1876. By achievement he honored, by gift he remembered his alma mater. MCMI" Here's the internet account of his death and legacy, and the Wikipedia entry on the Van Wickle Gates that bear his name on campus.]]> 58 2009-08-14 13:59:06 2009-08-14 13:59:06 open open pictures publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1251647212 12 chrisogunlowo@gmail.com http://www.aloofaa.blogspot.com 41.219.210.56 2009-08-14 16:39:14 2009-08-14 16:39:14 1 0 0 13 bukkies@yahoo.com 89.204.246.86 2009-08-14 18:32:37 2009-08-14 18:32:37 1 0 0 19 serenataph@yahoo.com 41.219.195.71 2009-08-15 23:41:52 2009-08-15 23:41:52 1 0 0 Reading Van Wickle's Obituary http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/pictures/img_0040-3/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:03:02 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_00402.jpg 67 2009-08-14 14:03:02 2009-08-14 14:03:02 open open img_0040-3 inherit 58 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_00402.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_00402.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"2736";s:6:"height";s:4:"3648";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:22:"height='96' width='72'";s:4:"file";s:84:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_00402.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250200760";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"125";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:6:"0.0125";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} An American Mosquito http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/mosquito/img_0065/ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:40:46 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0065.jpg 76 2009-08-15 01:40:46 2009-08-15 01:40:46 open open img_0065 inherit 75 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0065.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0065.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0065.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"9";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250285557";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:5:"8.295";s:3:"iso";s:2:"80";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:17:"0.066666666666667";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Providence from Above: Google Earth. http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/mosquito/fullscreen-capture-8142009-115600-am-bmp/ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:47:23 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/fullscreen-capture-8142009-115600-am-bmp.jpg 78 2009-08-15 01:47:23 2009-08-15 01:47:23 open open fullscreen-capture-8142009-115600-am-bmp inherit 75 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/fullscreen-capture-8142009-115600-am-bmp.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/fullscreen-capture-8142009-115600-am-bmp.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1280";s:6:"height";s:3:"800";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='80' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:115:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/fullscreen-capture-8142009-115600-am-bmp.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"0";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:37:"Brown University Inn on Thayer Street";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:1:"0";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:1:"0";s:3:"iso";s:1:"0";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:1:"0";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Mosquito! http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/mosquito/ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:48:11 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=75 I have once considered a house in Bariga, Lagos Nigeria where a brother used to stay as the headquarters of mosquito colonies in Nigeria, and here's why. They never died. They never left. And with all the numerous insecticides and mosquito sprays that my brother bought and sprayed the house with, all it needed was for you to go to bed, and the mosquitos came right back, out to get you: their singular purpose. It didn't matter whether you had a covering or that the fan was running at the highest speed. They will get you and your skin will be full of blisters and marks when you wake up the following morning. It was the same in many houses in Lagos where I had laid my head, and I had long given up on being ever able to stay away from malaria infection at least once every six months, when I am lucky. However, in the last couple of months, in my preparation for America, I had been sleeping under a mosquito treated net. With this net, all mosquitoes died immediately after making contact with it, and the person who slept inside it was safe and sound. If it wasn't treated for mosquitoes, it still served as a net to keep out the intruding blood-suckers who were the main malaria vectors. In making sure that I didn't bring malaria into the United States, I also gave myself a complete Atemisin Combination Therapy (a full dose of Artesunat and some other strong malaria medication, to give your body a complete malaria fumigation) and rested assured that I had nothing to scare my American hosts with. While on the American Airlines flight from Heathrow to Boston, I had about a half-hour discussion with someone about malaria, and what I came off with was a confirmation of what I had heard about the American dread of the disease, and their surprising ignorance about its spread and characteristics. Was it contagious? Did you get it by shaking hands with someone who had malaria? etc. I took time to explain and hoped that I had set his mind at rest that Malaria was not like Ebola or Leprosy which was spread by touch or any human bodily contact. It was a common disease all right, but with the right medication taken rightly, you'd be fine in no time. An American Mosquito So, here I am now, just returning from a very fulfilling trip round the city of Providence. We had met the Lieutenant Governor of the State, toured the Mall, bought some nice things, ate some nice stuff, and are now just getting down from the bus in front of the University Inn when something pinched me hard on the back of my hand. The pinch was familiar but it took me some time before I adjusted to the now shocking reality that a mosquito was indeed on my hand, sucking me out. It didn't wait for me to get into my room. It had attacked me in the presence of my fellow scholars from Spain and Germany, and as I was not prepared to accept defeat, I reacted in a way only a Nigerian could, and defeated the blood-sucking demon. Now who would have thought that after flying for thousands of miles to escape away from the heat and troubles of deadly malaria in Nigeria, one of these suckers would still trace me down and actually find me here in Providence, RI? I may be screwed. It's a good thing I came here with some more of those malaria medication from Nigeria. Time to get back to swallowing. By the way, did you hear the story of the Fulbright FLTA students from Nigeria that were delayed for five hours at the airport in the United States (some two years ago, I think) for telling the Customs Officer that they had brought "drugs from Nigeria" in their bags to deal with Malaria? The Customs Officer would not have batted an eyelid had they said they brought "malaria medication" instead. Drugs are another matter entirely. Why did you think the mosquito was able to trace me down here. Was it my colour? Maybe. Was the mosquito racist? Maybe not. I think it must be because of all the personal information I've been sharing out on my blog lately. Darn Google Earth! Update: More information about the American Mosquito here, since it will take convincing some Nigerians that mosquitoes are not native to their country. ]]> 75 2009-08-15 01:48:11 2009-08-15 01:48:11 open open mosquito publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1251647120 17 chrisogunlowo@gmail.com http://www.aloofaa.blogspot.com 196.46.245.21 2009-08-15 10:04:21 2009-08-15 10:04:21 1 0 0 18 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/what-would-i-have-done-without-mtn/ 66.135.48.201 2009-08-15 12:03:45 2009-08-15 12:03:45 1 pingback 0 0 30 rayosword@yahoo.com http://all4words.blogspot.com 41.184.49.132 2009-08-17 10:26:14 2009-08-17 10:26:14 1 0 0 40 waldbeer@hotmail.com 88.236.45.157 2009-08-18 06:31:02 2009-08-18 06:31:02 1 0 0 62 teddyochy@gmail.com 41.215.32.46 2009-08-20 14:15:31 2009-08-20 14:15:31 1 0 0 219 artiegib@gmail.com http://www.javaworld.com/community/user/26375 68.44.180.184 2009-09-05 21:57:07 2009-09-05 21:57:07 1 0 0 Me, and Lin, a fellow FLTA from China http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/american-first-impressions/img_0014/ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:51:39 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0014.jpg 84 2009-08-15 04:51:39 2009-08-15 04:51:39 open open img_0014 inherit 83 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0014.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0014.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0014.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250272969";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"400";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:17:"0.016666666666667";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Noodles, fried chicken, grilled chicken and mushrooms http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/american-first-impressions/img_0021/ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:53:45 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0021.jpg 85 2009-08-15 04:53:45 2009-08-15 04:53:45 open open img_0021 inherit 83 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0021.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0021.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0021.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250274872";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"250";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:17:"0.016666666666667";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Borders http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/american-first-impressions/img_0036/ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:56:32 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0036.jpg 86 2009-08-15 04:56:32 2009-08-15 04:56:32 open open img_0036 inherit 83 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0036.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0036.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0036.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250278347";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"200";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:17:"0.016666666666667";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} American First Impressions http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/american-first-impressions/ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:57:58 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=83 [/caption] I've been thinking about describing America in one word. I am failing. There are too many first impressions and so diverse a people to push into one word. But constrained to describe America from the little outlook I now have from Providence, Rhode Island, I'd go for "Life" - that is, a country where the most conspicuous attribute is its constantly beating heart. Here are a few of the photos from downtown Providence city mall. [caption id="attachment_85" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Noodles, fried chicken, grilled chicken and mushrooms - An american meal"]Noodles, fried chicken, grilled chicken and mushrooms - An american meal[/caption] The meals are as diverse as the people. There is a spending culture that is quite infectious. The first dilemma a new visitor faces is choosing a meal that is satisfactory. So far, I've been lucky. [caption id="attachment_86" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Borders"]Borders[/caption] BORDERS is an amazing bookshop where you could pick a book out of the shelf and spend your whole day reading it within the cafe without anyone coming to tap you on the shoulder asking when you'll return it, or whether you intend to pay for it soon. I have come across some other amazing bookstores here. The Brown University bookshop is well equiped and also allows for visitors to take their books and read, as long as you don't attempt to go out with them. [caption id="attachment_90" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="I hear this is Obama's brand"]I hear this is Obama's brand[/caption] Don't believe everything you hear about Bud Light. It's nothing compared to the bite or strength of the Nigerian Star or even Harp. I even wonder why they call it a beer when something like ginger ale would have been close enough. No, I'm kidding. But when I say it isn't as strong as Star or Harp, believe me. I still wonder why they require identification and proof of age before they sell it to customers. Even if you couldn't tell from faces who is eighteen and who is not, it might have saved them all the trouble by decreeing that whomever chose to drink this Bud Light is exempted from such restriction. They could drink a whole crate and still be fit enough to walk on a tight rope across a deep stream without falling in! Oh well, maybe this exaggeration is not needed, but I hope you get the idea. A more detailed post of that interesting experience of the city is coming soon. Watch out for a post on the amazing Apple shop, and why I may not own an Apple iPhone/product soon. This travula must sleep. Now. It has been a very long day. 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Who could tell it was almost 8pm http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/what-would-i-have-done-without-mtn/img_0062/ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:57:58 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0062.jpg 101 2009-08-15 11:57:58 2009-08-15 11:57:58 open open img_0062 inherit 97 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0062.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0062.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0062.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250280765";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"800";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:5:"0.125";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Me, shopping at Radio Shack http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/what-would-i-have-done-without-mtn/img_0002-3/ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:01:28 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_00022.jpg 103 2009-08-15 12:01:28 2009-08-15 12:01:28 open open img_0002-3 inherit 97 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_00022.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_00022.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:84:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_00022.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250272547";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"320";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:17:"0.016666666666667";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} What Would I Have Done Without MTN? http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/what-would-i-have-done-without-mtn/ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:03:34 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=97 [/caption] A couple of days after I landed, I discovered something that could have been a downside to the advantages I had enjoyed from my home service provider, MTN, since I touched down in Heathrow, and then Boston: I could be called from home, just like I was there. People who usually "flashed" my phone from Lagos and Ibadan kept doing so like I never left, and I sometimes wondered if I really was in the United States. Telemarketers from Nigeria kept sending me their text messages asking me to either open a bank account, advertise on NaijaRocks or watch the m-repporter show on Channels TV. Those who called me at midnight did so too, and that was welcome because by the time it was 12.30am in Nigeria, it was just 7.30pm here, and I could pick the call. (I know, this is not a perk I could rely on forever. I will be back home someday to resume that cycle of sleeplessness.) [caption id="attachment_107" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Shopping at Radio Shack"]Shopping at Radio Shack[/caption] Two days ago, a family member called me to ask where I had left the keys to the house well. An unknown number from MTN sent me a "Please Call Me. I love you" message. An old classmate invited me to her wedding taking place on 12th September, oblivious of my current immigrant status. My mother (God bless her) sent a N750 MTN credit to me from her mobile phone. I loaded it first, then sent an email to my sister to let her know that I couldn't possibly call back, but the money was appreciated. I am now able to send emails on my phone as well, even though I still can't call back. (Thank you T-Mobile/MTN). My most interesting discovery now is the fact that I could be sure that a particular close friend of mine (Bless you Omote me) will always call me between 11am and 12noon Nigerian time to say HI. What she probably does not know is that if not for her calls, I'd probably still be sleeping and snoring from all the tour and busy schedules of the previous day, and all the jetlag, and then miss breakfast or any other interesting activity for the day. She has almost now become my wake-up call. MTN - Everywhere you go! 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The visa interview lasted 5 minutes max, and my visa was ready in less than 48 hours, and even while I got it right in my hands, seeing myself on the sheet of paper that permitted me to enter the United States, I didn't feel any serious jolt that was reported to accompany such as an achievement. On the one hand, it was the result of a conditioned indifference to everything and anything. On the other hand, I just didn't believe it, and many times, especially during the last stretch of the flight from London Heathrow to Boston Logan, I had to stop myself from asking someone to pinch my skin just to be sure that it was indeed me sitting on a plane that now soared above a portion of the earth called North America, making a final descent. Signs Now all my friends advised me to start a blog. Some said keep a journal/notebook, and write the things that strike you, but make sure you write something down. I now look back, and thank them for those pieces of advice. They were the main force behind my deciding to put the first words down. As soon as I did that, the rest sort of came out on their own. I am now rounding off my Orientation Programme at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Yesterday, we had a tour of the city, and we were able to do some shopping while meeting with the Lt. Governor of the State. Today is the Farewell Banquet and Dance, and we are all going to sing and dance to music from all over the world, socialize, exchange email addresses, and then go pack our bags again for another journey to our various parts of the United States to put into use all the things we've learnt. My computer has just underlined the word "learnt". It has suggested that I use "learned" instead. I have re-read this piece from the top and noticed similar underlinings at "travelled" and "Programme". This is surely one of the things I will now have to adjust to in the next couple of months, alongside stop signs, weather readings, pizza, burritos, extralarge hamburgers, light beer and Starbucks decafinated coffee.]]> 113 2009-08-15 22:25:46 2009-08-15 22:25:46 open open why-do-i-blog publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1251646941 _edit_last 2145678 DSC_0645 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/oh-kola-youre-really-tall/dsc_0645/ Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:13:48 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/dsc_0645.jpg 119 2009-08-16 04:13:48 2009-08-16 04:13:48 open open dsc_0645 inherit 118 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/dsc_0645.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/dsc_0645.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3008";s:6:"height";s:4:"2000";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='85' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/dsc_0645.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"6.3";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:9:"NIKON D40";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1247573574";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:2:"55";s:3:"iso";s:3:"400";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:5:"0.004";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} IMG_0248 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/oh-kola-youre-really-tall/img_0248/ Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:34:09 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0248.jpg 120 2009-08-16 04:34:09 2009-08-16 04:34:09 open open img_0248 inherit 118 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0248.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0248.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0248.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250364547";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"800";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:5:"0.125";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} "Oh Kola, You're Really tall!" http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/oh-kola-youre-really-tall/ Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:39:47 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=118 [/caption] When I left Nigeria last week, I was convinced that my sister was right, that I was finally leaving a place where my height always stood me out, and everybody always asked "Oh, you're really tall. How tall are you?" And the second most common question asked was almost always "So do you play basketball? You should really consider it as a career choice." as if basketball skills develop only from a mere fact of height advantage. I could tell you different. The last time I played basketball in Jos during my NYSC, the guy who gave me the most trouble on the court was someone far shorter than me, but with enormous skill with the ball. And so, when I took of from Lagos, I congratulated myself for finally heading to where I will blend into the crowd and no one will notice me because, as the ubiquitous knowledge in Nigeria is, "Americans are tall people.". So here I am in Providence, Rhode Island, America, and I have not found one singular person - not one - who is taller than me. Stalemate! Don't get me wrong, I have seen some really tall people here, and if I am to be fair, I'd say that both America and Nigeria have tall men in different numbers, not just as tall as we have been made to believe. I haven't however met anyone of my height. Not here at least. When I first landed here, and I met the few American students from Brown who came to welcome us at the airport, I had already begun to check out the average height range, and what I found wasn't so encouraging. So I waited. Maybe after a few days, and we are all gathered, there would be someone, at least, who could look down at me or at least see me eye to eye. After a few days, I realized that hope was indeed lost. The conversation that put an end to that hope was between me and another FLTA from Turkey, I think. It went somewhat like this, beginning like the many others that I had heard since I got here: img_0298.jpg Person: Oh Kola, you really are taaaaall. Me: Really? Person: Yea. I don't think I've seen someone so tall as you. Me: No, I think you have. Person: No, I'm serious. Everyone in my country is like this. In some places, I'm even considered tall. Me: Ooooookay. Person: Is everyone from your country tall like you? Me: No. I know I should have lied when she asked that last question because the glint in her eyes showed an eagerness to hear the affirmative, and that we are all tall people. It wouldn't be nice to have her find out later that in my country, even she would be considered tall, being almost a foot taller than some people I know. (No, I won't mention names ;) !) And so did I find out that I was not as short as I always thought I was, and that America would never provide any safe hiding place for what I should accept as a positively defining feature. I have no doubt that this country has it's own tall population. Only that it's not likely to be in Rhode Island. Maybe Illinois. I guess I'll find out soon pretty enough, for in less than twenty-four hours, the travula is opening a new chapter in this American experience in the MidWest. Destination St. Louis. Destination Edwardsville. There is always an upside to the height advantage, besides attention and all the autographs you get from people thinking you are a famous basketball star. 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Thanks Providence! http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/wrapping-up-thanks-providence/ Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:16:32 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=129 Just like it began on Wednesday August 12, all the days of my orientation at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island has come to an end, and I now have to pack my bags and head to the American Midwest where a different and more practical challenge awaits me. But like I wished when I began, I have now discovered that having a blog would help me stay committed to finding time every day to reflect on what the day means to me, and my Fulbright program. This travelogue now mandates me to find time everyday of my trip to share what is happening to me at any given time, wherever I am on the American soil. I like that. In teaching us about culture shock earlier in the week, we were told that there are four stages in "Culture shock" that we would most likely experience: Honeymoon stage, Despair stage, Recovery stage and the Adjustment stage. It goes without saying that I'm still at the honeymoon stage, and that a time will come, whether I like it or not, when I might be too drained to write anything or update this blog. I am prepared for that, mentally. It is another matter whether I would physically be able to beat a temperature of minus 12 to type on the keyboard with - as I can imagine it now - my real thick handgloves. But I do hope to cross the bridge only when I reach it. Buffet What did I learn this week? One important lesson is that people are not the same across board even though we all have things that unite us. The women are an especially interesting study. While some will gladly allow you to take their pictures or take pictures with them holding their hands/side, some others are averse even to the idea of putting their photo in your camera in whatever form. Religion? Cultural upbringing? Preference? What matters at the end is the respect with which you are given the information, and the maturity with which you must accept it without malice. I have also learnt that not all familiarly looking leaf on the buffet is cabbage or lettuce. Sometimes it is a very sour vegetable that will not go down your throat no matter how you try. [caption id="attachment_132" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bye Bye Brown Classroom"]Bye Bye Brown Classroom[/caption] I also learnt a few new words. In Hindi, I now know that to say Mera naam Kola hai is to introduce myself, while to say Tumhara naam kia hai? is to ask that of another person. My German vocabulary also swelled up by one, as I learnt in a hard way that "Tisch" means table. I have also learnt how to write NIGERIA in Chinese, and to read my name in Arabic. When I think about it, those languages are not so hard, as long as you have a willing teacher. Now as I pack my bags right now after 2am when everyone else is asleep, let me share this with you. It is a quiz joke you must never repeat. What do you call someone who speaks more than one language? Answer: A multilingual. What do you call someone who speaks only two languages? Answer: A bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks only three languages? Answer: A trilingual. Now, what do you call someone who speaks only one language? Answer: An American. Of course that's not true. All the Americans I've met here speak or are at least trying to learn another language other than English. So if you must repeat the joke, do remember my disclaimer. Next stop: St. Louis, Missouri.]]> 129 2009-08-16 06:16:32 2009-08-16 06:16:32 open open wrapping-up-thanks-providence publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1251644748 _edit_last 2145678 24 tolukandi@yahoo.com 82.12.8.83 2009-08-16 09:19:33 2009-08-16 09:19:33 1 0 0 26 aitrai@yahoo.com 82.206.136.101 2009-08-16 14:46:30 2009-08-16 14:46:30 1 0 0 27 bukkies@yahoo.com 89.204.226.127 2009-08-16 21:45:41 2009-08-16 21:45:41 1 0 0 121 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/counting-up/ 72.233.96.189 2009-08-26 01:39:53 2009-08-26 01:39:53 1 pingback 0 0 Jotter http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/toiletiquettes/img_0337/ Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:36:51 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0337.jpg 137 2009-08-16 10:36:51 2009-08-16 10:36:51 open open img_0337 inherit 32 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0337.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0337.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata 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Right now as I sit here in the lobby at Brown Inn, I look to my right to find the same black jacket that I saw myself holding as I ran in the dream breathlessly through an unidentified airport in pursuit of a closing flight, and I realize that I have been played by nature, again. I wrote the above paragraph at 9.13am this morning, in Providence, when I discovered a few minutes earlier that contrary to my headstrong assumption, I would indeed be flying of out Boston Logan Airport to St Louis and not the TF Green Airport in Providence, Rhode Island. Here is why that was a problem: I was running late, and the Brown University administration provided only one shuttle from the Inn to Boston which was free of charge. It had left at 8 o'clock, one hour earlier, taking with it all the other FLTAs whose flight left at 11.10am like me. The only reason why I was not on that shuttle was that I did not confirm my departure airport and I naively assumed all the while that I would be flying out from the airport at Providence which was just a 20mins drive from Brown University. Now, there was a problem. Boston was about two hours away, I didn't have any cash to pay to a driver that must now be called to pick me up and take me to the airport as fast as possible. I sat down by my laptop in the lobby and started a blog post that was supposed to explain my dilemma. Truth was, I already had a dream in which I found myself running late for an important flight. Now, it was beginning to seem that today would be the manifestation of that nightmare. I had been up since 6am, and all I could have done was just to look at my ticket and confirm the departure airport. It wouldn't have taken a minute. I didn't, and I was about to suffer the consequences. IMG_0379 In a few minutes, while I was still trying to blog about my predicament - after all there was nothing else to do but hope that the taxi cab driver made it on time, or else - he came, and after agreeing on price and means of payment, ushered me into the beautiful black Cadillac, and we headed out to Boston, leaving Providence behind. It was a VIP ride, and we arrived on time, travelling at about 80miles/hour (128km/hour). We arrived at Logan at around 10.30am, and I had enough time to check in. I tried to blog again afterwards, and was punished by the now erratic airline Wifi server when all the page disappeared, leaving only my earlier paragraph from the morning. Thinking back, I realized how hard it could have been if I had discovered this error only after I had arrived at TF Green airport, and presented my flying ticket to the security. By then, it would be too late, and right now, I would still be sitting down in a cab, or an airport lobby waiting for another flight to St. Louis while upsetting the already planned programme of my host at Edwardsville who no doubt would have been waiting for me at the Airport Arrival point with my name on a large card. That is not counting the cash I would have had to pay for missing my flight. I didn't get off easy on this one anyway. A good cut of my allowance in traveller's check has now gone to pay for that trip, even though I wouldn't say that it wasn't worth it. It was my fault after all. One good thing - a few of them actually - however happened on my way to Boston. Having all the back seat to myself while my (very friendly and courteous) driver/chauffeur called me "Sir" all the time and attended to my every need, I brought out the Season 5 of my favourite TV show, Boston Legal (which I bought some three days back at the Mall in Providence) and sat back to enjoy the series. In some little but profound way, it felt nice to be watching Boston Legal again. Only this time, it is while sitting comfortably at the back of a Cadillac, and travelling to Boston.]]> 147 2009-08-16 21:02:16 2009-08-16 21:02:16 open open the-trip-to-boston publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1251646841 28 kemposie@yahoo.com 62.56.137.254 2009-08-17 00:13:37 2009-08-17 00:13:37 1 0 0 31 rayosword@yahoo.com http://all4words.blogspot.com 41.184.49.132 2009-08-17 12:56:29 2009-08-17 12:56:29 1 0 0 38 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/a-little-about-cougar-village/ 72.233.96.147 2009-08-18 02:26:25 2009-08-18 02:26:25 1 pingback 0 0 39 adelekeadesanya@gmail.com 196.1.179.242 2009-08-18 05:36:04 2009-08-18 05:36:04 1 0 0 41 waldbeer@hotmail.com 88.236.45.157 2009-08-18 06:47:04 2009-08-18 06:47:04 1 0 0 Itinerary http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/the-trip-to-boston/img_0368/ Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:03:05 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0368.jpg 151 2009-08-17 11:03:05 2009-08-17 11:03:05 open open img_0368 inherit 147 0 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Luckily for me, I found a friendly airport staff who pointed out the direction to me: "You go that way, turn left, walk up the stairs, turn right, turn right again and keep going. It's pretty easy!". I agreed, and followed his direction. I eventually asked somebody else when it seemed that I was gonna get lost, and I found my way at last to M1 where my bag finally came out. The next step was to find my greeters who were at this time nowhere to be found, so I walked towards the exit, and sat down. I was in St. Louis, the beautiful town famous for the likes of Miles Davies the jazz trumpeter. Should I step out of the airport and feed my eyes while I wait for my greeters? I decided against it, and just waited. After about 8minutes of waiting, I took one last walk back to M1, the baggage claim point, where I found someone carrying a sheet of paper that had my name written boldly on it. I brought out my camera and *click* took a picture. I went closer and introduced myself. IMG_0507 There were two of them: Mary - a student of English Pre-law from the Students Government body, and Sai - an Indian in the Engineering department. They helped with my bags, took me to eat some more flour-based food, and we headed to campus. I hadn't had breakfast since morning, and the bagel I ordered in the morning was kinda unsatisfactory because of all the cheese they stuffed in it that I wasn't used to. Luckily for me, these were students from the International Students Office who had come to bring me to campus, and I could be free to tell them how I really feel. "I would prefer something not made with flour," I said. And from the first giggle, I knew it was an impossible task. [caption id="attachment_160" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="All for me"]All for me[/caption] I am now on campus, in my room, after signing for the key, and everywhere I turn to here, there is a sign that bears my name, welcoming me to Edwardsville. I feel special. There is a basket of fruits for me from the International Hospitality Program. There's also a large paper bag containing everything I must need to be comfortable in this lodging: Pringles, tissue paper, snacks, jotter, pen, crayons, nail clipper, toothbrush, shampoo, hand sanitizer, deodorant, sugar, milk, juice, toothpaste, plastic spoons, chocolate, salted peanuts among many many others that I haven't yet opened. It's impossible not to feel special right now. In the fridge is another assortment of food items, all for me. I know this because my name has also been tagged onto the door of the refrigerator. This is the honeymoon phase. This is my first night. 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You heard me, NEPA struck. Or is it PHCN? They've got to have one of those acronyms for them here too, but the fact was power shut down! For hours. For up to twelve hours!!! I kid you not. I first thought it was a glitch, a little error that would be resolved in two seconds. It was not so. I looked out of the window and saw that the few people I saw outside went on as if nothing was wrong. Could it be that this happened a lot? I was confused. And it was cold. And I was alone. My room mate was not around even though I could see his clothings and other personal effects around me. I was the only person here, in those dark, cold, silent hours. I felt drained from all the travelling. And for the first time since I landed in the United States, I felt truly lonely. And then I received a call from Nigeria, which lifted my spirit for a little while. My phone couldn't browse anymore (having switched itself to AT&T from the previous T-Mobile network), my laptop battery was dying, and the campus Wifi shut down with the electric power. Yet, I didn't have any clue as to what was going on. By around 7pm when it started getting really dark, I took my phone and my key, and strolled out of my flat. When I didn't see anyone around, and it felt safe to just go back and cuddle my warm bed, I came back home only to find, on reaching the door, that I couldn't open it. There were two locks, and there was just one key. How did I fail to notice this, and call attention to it before Sai and Mary left? It began to look really scary, and I thought of the possibility of sleeping in the passageway in this cold, without proper covering. Before Sai - the Indian - left a few hours earlier, he had told me that there was a phone card in my welcome package, and I could use it to call anywhere I wanted. As soon as he left, I called the number on the card so as to activate it, but I was disappointed. The conversation on the phone went somewhat like this, after several minutes of "please hold on": Operator: Hi, Welcome to Zaptel. How may I help you? Me: Hello, my name is kt and I am calling to activate my calling card. Operator: Have you tried to do so on our website? Me: No. It is written here on the card that I should call this number. Operator: Are you sure there is no website address on the card? Me: Well, there is zaptel.com. Operator: No, I mean a link to where you can activate your card? Me: No. Operator: You must be using one of those really old cards. Me: Hmm. Operator: You should speak to the person who gave it to you to get you a recent one. Those old ones don't work anymore. Me: Alright. Thank you very much. Operator: You are welcome. It was just as fine with me anyway since when I scratched the card, I saw only two digits instead of ten. The card was really really old. But why should I complain. One does not look a gift horse in the mouth. But now that I was locked up out of my own room, without calling credit and without the slightest idea of how to contact anybody else, I looked at my Nokia N70 again, and brought it to the rescue. I dialled Nine-One-One. Operator: Hello, this is 911. What's your emergency. Me: I don't know if you would consider this an emergency, but I've locked myself out of my room, it's cold, there is no electric power, and I need to let someone know this before I freeze to death. Operator: Are you on the SIU campus? Me: Yes. Operator: Well, this line is only for emergencies. Why don't you hang up and call me back on 6503324? Me: Okay. I'll do so. How she knew where I was without me telling her, I have no idea. I hung up, and dialled the other number. I heard this said to me, first in English, then in Spanish: "The call you are attempting to place is not allowed from this line. Please dial 611 for customer service, or dial 1-800-331-0500 from a landline phone." I gave up. I didn't have calling credit so even if I called the other numbers, I would not be connected. 911 was the only free emergency line I know, and now I've been shut out of that as well. I was going to freeze to death now for sure. And it was just about 20degrees, too cold for my Nigerian skin. After about thirty minutes, God - or someone really close to him - took pity on me, and my neighbour from upstairs came down and saw me staring hopelessly at the door. He introduced himself and I did the same, then he followed me to the door and asked me to try it again. I slid the key into the first lock, it opened. I told him I didn't have a key to the second lock, and he said that I should use the same key. I did so, and it opened. Just like that. I thanked him, and after about two minutes of sharing random information about ourselves, he asked me not to hesitate to call on his if I ever wanted to "hang out". Very nice. I thanked him and I went back to sleep. Later at night, my roommate came in. His name, interestingly, is Christopher, and we both spent a few minutes lamenting the state of darkness. It had never happened like this before, he said. It must be the thunderstorm. Maybe a pole or a tree branch fell on an electric connection. Hopefully, before daybreak it would be restored. This morning, at around 6am, power was restored, and I heaved a sigh of relief. My laptop is now recharged. I will have to wait till evening to buy a power adaptor for my phone's charger. Twenty-four hours ago, I could not imagine a 14hour power outage in the United States. Maybe it didn't really happen. Maybe it was just my imagination, that cynical part of my consciousness with roots still firmly planted on the Nigerian soil. Up NEPA! UPDATE: The power outage was mentioned in this article about a fire on campus today: http://www.fdnntv.com/Lightening_Causes_Fire_Southern_Illinois_University_Edwardsville_Campus]]> 165 2009-08-17 13:14:21 2009-08-17 13:14:21 open open and-there-was-no-light publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1251644843 _edit_last 2145678 33 serenataph@yahoo.com 41.219.216.203 2009-08-17 17:13:04 2009-08-17 17:13:04 1 0 0 36 bukola303@yahoo.com 41.220.75.3 2009-08-17 18:51:53 2009-08-17 18:51:53 1 0 0 49 rayosword@yahoo.com http://all4words.blogspot.com 62.173.35.6 2009-08-18 13:42:41 2009-08-18 13:42:41 1 0 0 54 to4ogunlesi@yahoo.com 62.173.33.82 2009-08-19 20:05:47 2009-08-19 20:05:47 1 0 7276802 56 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/notes-to-self/ 72.233.96.141 2009-08-20 00:05:20 2009-08-20 00:05:20 1 pingback 0 0 173 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/10-reasons-why-cougar-village-is-a-village/ 72.233.96.139 2009-08-30 05:59:35 2009-08-30 05:59:35 1 pingback 0 0 179 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/10-reasons-why-cougar-village-is-not-a-village/ 72.233.96.147 2009-08-31 01:44:55 2009-08-31 01:44:55 1 pingback 0 0 213 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/in-a-country-of-opposites/ 74.200.245.187 2009-09-05 07:56:37 2009-09-05 07:56:37 1 pingback 0 0 IMG_0615 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/my-name-is/img_0613/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:58:23 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0613.jpg 177 2009-08-18 01:58:23 2009-08-18 01:58:23 open open img_0613 inherit 176 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0613.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0613.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0613.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250545013";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"800";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:4:"0.05";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} My Name Is... http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/my-name-is/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:59:47 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=176 NBOSUN with that extra "n", and it always set me on edge. Even when properly written, an overzealous receptionist in all my schooling in Nigeria was always going to add that "n" at that exact place, much to my chagrin. IMG_0615 As I grew up, I learnt to live with that fact. When I opened my email address: kolatubosun AT yahoo.com, many of even my close friends sent my mails to kolatuNbosun AT yahoo.com and I never got them back. One day, the poor owner of that other address took pity on me and sent me many of the mails wrongly addressed to him. When I moved to Gmail, I moved to prevent any further losses by opening another address at kolatuNbosun AT gmail.com just to cater for all the misaddressed mails. It turned out to be good decision. As I joined Facebook, I came across the same situation, when many of those who should have known me better always claimed not to be able to locate me online because when they keyed in Kola OlatuNbosun, it didn't bring them to my page. I apologised, and promptly registered a new one which is now dormant except for the acceptance of those occasional friendship requests. I am thinking back on those times today because on looking closely at my name written on my fridge, basket of fruits and International Hospitality Program packet, I found that it was written, not as Kolawole OlatuNbosun this time, but as Kolawole OlatunbosuM. I really don't mind, because this time, I know it is a typo. I can't win them all.]]> 176 2009-08-18 01:59:47 2009-08-18 01:59:47 open open my-name-is publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1251646784 _edit_last 2145678 46 morakdimu@yahoo.com 82.128.13.49 2009-08-18 12:55:37 2009-08-18 12:55:37 1 0 0 47 laratubosun@yahoo.com 41.204.224.11 2009-08-18 13:35:49 2009-08-18 13:35:49 1 0 0 48 laratubosun@yahoo.com 41.204.224.11 2009-08-18 13:41:21 2009-08-18 13:41:21 1 0 0 51 lekeclement@yahoo.co.uk 144.92.194.120 2009-08-18 14:41:32 2009-08-18 14:41:32 1 0 0 78 sukkilala@yahoo.co.uk 62.173.35.6 2009-08-21 13:44:03 2009-08-21 13:44:03 1 0 0 Shed http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/a-little-about-cougar-village/img_0572/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:05:13 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0572.jpg 181 2009-08-18 02:05:13 2009-08-18 02:05:13 open open img_0572 inherit 180 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0572.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0572.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0572.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250542572";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"800";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:5:"0.125";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} IMG_0590 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/a-little-about-cougar-village/img_0590/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:17:24 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0590.jpg 182 2009-08-18 02:17:24 2009-08-18 02:17:24 open open img_0590 inherit 180 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0590.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0590.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0590.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250542828";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"800";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:5:"0.125";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} A Little About Cougar Village http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/a-little-about-cougar-village/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:26:20 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=180 I now reside at Cougar Village, a student accommodation area a short walking distance from the main campus of SIUe. It is a beautiful and restful students village with many identical apartments. I share a room with an undergraduate of Pharmacy who is also from Illinois. I got lost earlier today while trying to locate my apartment. It was made worse by the rain of which I had been warned earlier in the day at www.weather.com. I had gone out in the morning to attend the International Students Orientation Programme organised by the International Students Services for dozens of international students to the University. Myself and Reham from Egypt were the only Fulbright FLTA scholars there. We had met earlier at Providence so it was just a happy reunion. For some strange reason, her flight did not land at the same time as mine so I hadn't seen her since I left Providence in my Cadillac. IMG_0590 Later in the evening, my roommate Chris gave me a ride back to campus so that I could get connected to the internet. I missed the campus bus from campus, and I decided to walk back. That turned out to be a very liberating experience, and I also got to take some really nice photos of the campus, especially the beautiful Cougar Lake. On my way to campus, I saw a nice deer grazing on the grass. According to Chris, it was so tame that one could go and stroke its head. Impressive. While at Providence, I had chanced on a few squirrels playing without any worries around we humans. I give America one thing: it respects its animals. Back home, the first reflex is always to find a weapon anytime you spot game. It is a cardinal sin to let one escape when the cooking cauldron awaits agape. Africans thrive on the murder/hunting of game. It is a thrilling endeavour. Because it's fun? Because we're hungry? Because they're pests? Now I have sufficient explanation for the speed with which the squirrels on my old campus in Ibadan flee in the opposite direction whenever I open my palms and call them to come and eat some nuts: their parents and great grand parents must have told them of our kind. "When you see those guys, run as fast as you can, or else you'll end up in the cooking pot!". And they always often do. That is why the squirrel in Edwardsville has a higher life expectancy than one in Ibadan.]]> 180 2009-08-18 02:26:20 2009-08-18 02:26:20 open open a-little-about-cougar-village publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1251641639 43 serenataph@yahoo.com 41.219.230.155 2009-08-18 07:04:34 2009-08-18 07:04:34 1 0 0 44 umez75@gmail.com 196.200.115.130 2009-08-18 07:59:14 2009-08-18 07:59:14 1 0 0 Jew Me http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/i-could-be-jewish-you-know/img_0131/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:44:23 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0131.jpg 192 2009-08-18 14:44:23 2009-08-18 14:44:23 open open img_0131 inherit 190 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0131.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0131.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0131.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250326095";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"400";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:17:"0.016666666666667";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} IMG_0128 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/i-could-be-jewish-you-know/img_0128/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:01:44 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0128.jpg 196 2009-08-18 15:01:44 2009-08-18 15:01:44 open open img_0128 inherit 190 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0128.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0128.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"2736";s:6:"height";s:4:"3648";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:22:"height='96' width='72'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0128.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250325821";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"400";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:4:"0.04";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} IMG_0124 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/i-could-be-jewish-you-know/img_0124/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:15:08 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0124.jpg 198 2009-08-18 15:15:08 2009-08-18 15:15:08 open open img_0124 inherit 190 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0124.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0124.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0124.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250323018";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"400";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:4:"0.04";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Jew me http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/i-could-be-jewish-you-know/img_0190/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:16:42 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0190.jpg 200 2009-08-18 15:16:42 2009-08-18 15:16:42 open open img_0190 inherit 190 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0190.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0190.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0190.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250347085";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"250";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:17:"0.033333333333333";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} I Could Be Jewish, You Know! http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/i-could-be-jewish-you-know/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:20:21 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=190 If you have been reading this blog from the beginning, you would notice that I've taken height as my most defining feature in America, and not the colour of my skin. That should be strange to hear for those who expect that I would have spent only a few hours before complaining that someone called me monkey or asked me to show them my tail. Sorry to disappoint you so far. Maybe if I had been posted to a Texas countryside I might have more juicy things to tell. But even then, something in me tells me that we see things only as we are, and not as they are. Racism will not find me here. Finito. However, I do want to share some interesting thoughts of mine, and a few instances that has made me reconsider American racism and my reaction to it. On Sunday while at the Inn at Providence when the good woman at the desk called the Cadillac driver to please speed down to pick me up to the airport, I confess now to having assumed that the driver of the Cadillac was a black man. I feel terribly ashamed to admit this, but I did. And when she called me up from my laptop five minutes later to tell me that he was here, and I saw him, the "oh!" that instantly escaped my throat was not just to wonder at the speed with which he had arrived, but to recognize my own wrong and shameful racial profiling. I mean, how could I? Now yesterday afternoon, I had a somewhat shocking but enlightening experience. While sitting peacefully in the campus computer lab, checking my emails in relative anonymity, a beautiful African American woman who was two seats away from me had logged out of her computer, and was checking out my African jacket. "What do you call that?" She asked. "This is called Aso Oke," I replied. "It's a special kind of fabric." "Are you from Africa?" She asked again, and I took my face off the computer screen to look at her. "Yes." I replied. "I'm from Nigeria." "I ask because I've been doing some studies on the original Hebrew tribes, and their dispersal. I know that the high priests of those times wore some special clothes to distinguish them from the other Israelites." "Really? That's nice." I said, since I didn't know where she was going with it. "Do you know that the original Israelites were black?" I didn't know that, even though I have heard some conspiracy theories, and I said so. "They were black," she continued, "And when Israel was invaded by the Romans in the ...th Century, the true original Israelites were dispersed to parts of West Africa where they all settled and formed a new country. They took with them their fabrics, and that's probably why you have these kinds of fabric in Nigeria, Ghana, Congo and many other African countries today." [caption id="attachment_200" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Jew me"]Jew me[/caption] She let that sink in, and she continued. Even before she did so, I was already trying to make the connection between the famous Yoruba's Oduduwa/Oranmiyan myth and how it relates with the Hebrew story. Oduduwa was said to have come from "the East"/Mecca, and that could as well have been Israel. The staff of Oranmiyan in Ile Ife till today still has on it letters of Hebrew that spells "Oranmiyan". "Are you familiar with the story of Noah's sons?" she asked. "Yes, a little," I replied. "Shem, Ham and Japheth?" "Yea." She said. We were initially thought to have descended from Ham. Now I'm discovering evidence to prove that it is not true." "Really?" I said, now giving her my full attention. I could always browse later. "In those days, being white was a disease. It was from Leprosy, and whoever was afflicted was cast out of the society. The normal people were the black, and the white were the diseased. We don't hear much about this today because the world has been whitewashed and the truth has been suppressed. And the truth is that we were the original chosen tribes, and the white-skinned people were the cursed, forbidden ones." This was something I totally disagree with, for many scientific and logical reasons. As convincing as the argument sounded at the begining, I found that she had deviated much, and was now trying to take me into a deep place I didn't want to go. Moreso, nothing she said could explain melanin and the influence of weather on skin colouring. I chose not to ask her these since I now really wanted her to be done, and gone. She didn't look like someone ready to drop her convictions. And as I looked around the open-ended computer room to find that we were the only person in there. I felt uncomfortable, especially as she had now began to lower her voice when another student came in and took position in the corner nearest to the door. That one was a Caucasian. IMG_0128 "I've been researching this for about nine months," she continued "And I have discovered so many interesting truths about us as a race, and about how the white man has tried for centuries to subdue us with slavery, colonialism and whitewashing. I've also been learning from those who have been studying this for many years." "Are you a student of History?" I asked. "No, but I take very strong interest in it. I spoke to God to show me why we are so hated in the world today, and he is taking me through all of this to show them to me." She replied. "My research is based on Historic, Archeological and Biblical findings." "That's very interesting," I said. "Thank you for sharing this with me." "You're welcome." She said, as she stood up to go. "Who knows, you may be an African Hebrew." I laughed. Then stopped. "Who knows?" I replied. "It's nice meeting you." "Same here." She said, and left. When I think about it, the only problem that I can see from becoming an African Jew is that I would now be open to attack from two rather than one angle. I mean, the Jews already have their own problems in the world, right? And so do the Africans. Why would I chose to double my jeopardy just for the sake of acquiring a new identity? No, I think I'll stick with just being African for now. That's enough. Walking back home as I passed by the beautiful scenery of the Cougar Lake, I thought about this and many more issues, and wondered aloud just how many more such self-discoveries await me in this land of the free.]]> 190 2009-08-18 15:20:21 2009-08-18 15:20:21 open open i-could-be-jewish-you-know publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1252180274 _edit_last 2145678 52 serenataph@yahoo.com 41.219.230.162 2009-08-18 18:40:35 2009-08-18 18:40:35 1 0 0 58 bookaholicblog@gmail.com http://bookaholicblog.blogspot.com/ 41.219.226.236 2009-08-20 00:33:23 2009-08-20 00:33:23 1 0 0 93 vera@verastic.com http://www.verastic.com 98.218.130.170 2009-08-23 01:30:30 2009-08-23 01:30:30 1 0 0 You Nigerians Are Everywhere http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/you-nigerians-are-everywhere/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:13:51 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=220 220 2009-08-18 22:13:51 2009-08-18 22:13:51 open open you-nigerians-are-everywhere publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1251641952 75 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There is nothing sinister about the fact that there was power outage, and a serious fire outbreak in house #529 of Cougar Village, on the same day of your arrival in house #431. Cast the superstitious devil out of your dirty mind, all your friends'. #2. Stop worrying about the absence of bones in the American fried chickens. See, you're no more in Nigeria, and there's nothing wrong in eating a boneless fried chicken. Seek calcium from some other sources. By some miracle of cooking, Americans have long devised their way to prepare their fried chicken without its bones. Their dogs must eat something, after all. IMG_0727 #3. There must be a special reason why this post, and this one, are the most read on this blog. Your Nigerian readers must be fascinated by the fact that their biggest assumptions could as well be wrong. But why did they not read much of this one? Could it be that they care much less about foreign food, considering that they have become insular in their culinary preferences? #4. Do your winter shopping for hats, gloves, boots, mufflers, shawls and overcoats latest by the middle of September. You don't want to have your toes fall off when it gets as cold as the inside of a Fan Ice freezer. Prepare a good part of your savings for buying hot Starbucks coffee. Don't forget to buy some ogogoro as well. Nothing is too small to fight against the midwestern cold when it comes. Don't leave anything to chance. Geese #5. You are a teacher here, and not a student like everybody else. Hold yourself high. Be disciplined. Put all your enthusiasm to work, and you just might pull this off nicely. All you have is this one year to make a good first impression. It's just like the NYSC. You survived that one, right? And in that particular case, it was in a mixed secondary boarding school without internet, cafeteria, school bus, to-borrow bookstores, warm bath, pretty lake and an attractive stipend, situated in the middle of nowhere, and where students spoke a combination of Hausa, Berom and crooked pidgin slang. #6. Buy a bicycle, preferably not at Wal-mart. Buy a basketball. Like many people say, don't waste your talent. See if you can make a college career in basketball, if only for the fun feeling you get from the company of other players. Put your height to advantage, but don't beat them too much. They might get jealous. #7. Stop expecting your roommate to know who Halle Berry is when you tell him about the movie "Monster's Ball". He is an undergraduate of Pharmacy, not Theatre. And he's from Illinois, not California. After all, not all Nigerians know who Fathia Balogun or Lola Idije are. IMG_0685 #8. Deal with time zones already. When you were in Providence, you were five hours away from home. Now at Edwardsville, it is a six hours gap, and you may not call home thinking you still exist in the same longitude. #9. Get used to seeing women drive the buses that take you to and from campus everyday. You are no longer in Nigeria. #10. Enjoy yourself. Visit that lake more often. Go to town more often. Take long walks. Ride around town. Ride to St. Louis. Get lost, wander around, and find your way back when it's dark, with sweat marks on your brow and a very exhilarating feeling in your belly. Visit Boston again, this time not just the airport. Visit New York, Broadway. Take pictures at the National Mall when you're in Washington DC in December. And at the Lincoln Memorial. Fall in love. Tease. Rock the silent woods in your own little way, and let it fill you with its bubbling life. 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http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/god-bless-america/ Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:27:56 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=423 Today is a beautiful day of many surprises. I'm still reeling from the exhilaration of the very distinguishing welcome, and I don't know where to begin. It is not up to twenty-four hours ago when I talked about the generousity of my hosts, and now, with both hands full and head spinning as if in the clouds, I realize how blessed I am, and how blessed in return my hosts must be - for it holds true every time that givers never lack. Today was a welcome event for international scholars/students. Lunch at Faculty Here's how it all started. I had woken up iin the morning feeling all dull and lethargic, and I didn't feel like going out. I looked at my blog and found that I had made only one reflective post on the 19th. I thought of making some more posts on America's awkward signs, London from above, the taste of strawberry, but I got lazy and played around the internet instead. Then I got an email from my secondary supervisor here, who is Nigerian, and he arranged for me to come over to school to meet up with him. Reluctantly, I got up and did so, and we went over a few of the things I needed to know as a faculty member. I went from there to my department (of Foreign Languages) and was hijacked by the Chair, Belinda, who invited me to lunch with other new and old members of the faculty. They were from Spain, McGraw Hill (the publishers), Germany, Mexico, France, and Nigeria (Me). It was a good lunch. I had to teach everyone how to correctly pronounce my name. New Family In the evening, Reham and I attended the International Welcome for foreign students/scholars where we were treated to a very large banqet. It was organised by the Internation Hospitality Programme people: the guys that gave me that spectacular fruity choclatey welcome. Along with plenty to eat, there was also plenty to take away. There was a hospitality stand where students could get cutleries, beddings, electronics and plenty many other things to take home, all for free. The most unique part of the evening was where students got to sign up with host familes for "adoption". As a foreign student/scholar, your host family would be responsible for making you birthday cakes, taking you out to occasional dinners, calling you when you're sick, and generally doing things your parents might do if they were here. It is a very responsible programme, and Sai says he was moved almost to tears by how caring these adoptive parents could be, and how seriously they took their "parenting" jobs. My adopted parents now include an Indian father and an American mother. New Friends My second family has an African-American parent, both already almost of grandparenting age. Very nice. They've asked me for what I need, and I told them I'd make a list when I can. I can't think of anything right now. I have their home addresses, and I will be visiting them soon, on my new bike. Yea, I finally got a bike, and in less than fourty-eight hours after I put it in my notes to self. Well, let me tell you about how I got it, but not before this report. Sometimes during this evening's programme, our names were drawn in a lottery, and twelve lucky people out of about three hundred of us were picked out randomly to be given gifts. I was the second draw, and I was presented with a bag of even more stationeries: jotters, pens and pencils, and a branded SIUE t-shirt. Now what were the chances that I would make that list of twelve out of that large number? I was never a lucky person when it came to odds, and yet there I was with a bag of free gifts. Then came Papa Rudy. Rudy Wilson I first met Rudy Wilson in Ibadan in 2003 while I was an undergraduate of Linguistics. He was one of a team of University professors on an exchange programme from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville to the University of Ibadan. He was in company of Ron Schaefer, Matt Emerson, Eugene Redmond and a few other scholars from SIUE working with the likes of Remi Raji, Francis Egbokhare, Samuel Asein (who ironically died here in Edwardsville a few years later). I was just a bloody undergraduate then, but I remembered him. We had some very nice time in Ibadan at the time, especially during a get-together celebration we had then for the then newly crowned Professor in Ibadan, Francis Egbokhare, who was at the time Ibadan's youngest professor. Rudy to the right The programme featured poetry readings, small talk and food. I remembered Rudy as one of the hip, mischievous, but lively members of the SIUE crew, and his name stuck in my mind for a long time. I met him again today on the floor of the basketball court where the event took place. He didn't remember me, but I reminded him of those times we had. We were taken to each other instantly, and we exchanged addresses. We talked a lot about some old stuff, and he told me lives in Edwardsville. I said I would come check him out when I got my bike, and that was when it came: "I do have a bike I could give you." He said. "Really?" I asked, surprised. "Yea. It's pretty new. I haven't used it a lot, but it's just sitting at home idle." My new bike, with helmet. "That would be nice." I said. "I would appreciate it. I have been meaning to get a very cheap one when my paycheck comes in." "No, don't worry. I'll give it to you. Do you want to come for it this evening, or tomorrow?" "Today will be nice. I can ride it home from your house, if you don't mind." "No, I'll give it to you, and then drop you off back at Cougar Village. I won't want something to happen to you on your first night in town. After all it's getting dark. Can you ride a bike?" "Of course I can ride one." "But you have to ride it with a helmet always." He said. I should have told him "It's like sex: one never really forgets the techniques," because later on the way to his beautiful house in town where I met his nice, beautiful wife and pets, and back to my apartment where my nice bike now rests, I found out the more how much of a nice, brilliant, mischievous and utterly down-to-earth person he is. If he had known that I would be coming, he said, he would have arranged that I stayed with him in Edwardsville rather than the Cougar Village apartment that I now have, and pay for. I explained to him my preference for the Cougar accomodation. Kola, Nikola! It would give me some insight into the students life here, and I would need that experience. Rudy also happened to be a very avid collector of art items, which was a good thing, since I had one of my Nigerian artworks with me to give him as a present in return. It was both our lucky day, but mostly for me it was super superb. And to top it all up, I finally met someone taller than me during the evening event. Yippie! Well, it's not so surprising considering that the program was held on a basketball court. He is a student, who also plays basketball. His name - if you can imagine - is Nikola, but he's from Serbia. Kola and Nikola. Hmm. Over all, it was a fantastic evening, even luckier for me, and hopefully for Rudy and my new host families. 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http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/office-hours/ Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:41:44 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=479 "Please don't wake me while I'm working!" The sign on the office door of Belinda, the chair of the Foreign Languages Department. [gallery link="file"] ]]> 479 2009-08-21 06:41:44 2009-08-21 06:41:44 open open office-hours publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1251646041 83 serenataph@yahoo.com 41.219.199.174 2009-08-21 18:00:42 2009-08-21 18:00:42 1 0 0 Thinking of Home http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/thinking-of-home/ Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:18:24 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=522 an indefinite industrial strike to petition the government on a variety of matters bordering on increasing the standard of University (and Polytechnic) education in the country. They have been been on strike since June this year and would not resume, or attend to students, until the Government responds to them. And from the look of things, the government doesn't seem to give a hoot. Nigeria is still in darkness, the same perennial state of recurring despair that has produced nothing but hopelessness, idleness, restiveness, violence, and an alarming brain drain. Nothing has changed. In 2003 as an undergraduate in Ibadan, as head of a student group of campus journalists, I had created an online petition meant to harry the Federal Government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to find a middle ground, and resolve their differences in the interest of students whose brains are being allowed to shrivel up from idleness. It turned out in the end that keeping us idle was part of a masterplan to disenfranchise University students in the general election, and in turn use them for the dirty jobs of violence. I had written a very angry open letter in the dailies to poke at the conscience of the leaders. In the end, nothing came out of it. The strike drew out for as long as nine months before we were called back to school. If I had thought about it for a second time, I should have known that writing never solved any problem. The wicked people in the high places didn't care about what we thought, and a dark empty place perhaps filled with beer farts, tobacco and ugly smut now exists where their conscience used to be. Now as I sit here alone in serenity, in a place where things go according to order, according to sanity, according to the highest sense of responsibility, I think of home. I think of the enormous waste that must be taking place right now in homes and on the street. How many lives must be seeping out of relevance all over Nigeria's mamoth population because of the insensitivity of its leaders who can now no longer be pricked with either conscience or common sense. I feel lonely, not from absence, but from despair. I can not change the world. I can only change myself. 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Every part of the campus is made acessible for both able-bodied people, and the disabled ones. There are braille signs under every office number, and there are parking spaces reserved only for the disabled. Able-bodied people who park in those places are open to monetary penalties. The big bus that traverses the campus length and breath has a particular section for the weak and elderly. Everyone who sits there must yield their seats when such people get on the bus. There are also automatic door openers meant to help people on wheel chairs to open every door they may want to pass through. By pressing the switch, the door opens about six feet before the person gets there. IMG_0872 The other prominent and memorable feature of this campus, nay, of this town, are dedicated bicycle and jugging tracks that run through the woods. These tracks are to this town what railway lines are to Ibadan. They are routes specifically constructed for bike riders and runners, and it runs through town without interferring with the passage of cars. The planners of this town are a meticulous people. At points where these bike tracks intersect with the motor roads, the motor roads fly over the tracks, or, shall we say, the tracks go under it. Therefore, if I were to ride a bicycle from here in Cougar Village to St. Louis, I would see any cars on the way until I reach an motor bridge intersection where I would be able to decide whether to come up or keep going. It is beautiful. IMG_0877 So today I rode to campus on my new bicycle. To say the least, it was a liberating experience having the wind blow by me as I pedaledl and stretched all the sleeping muscles of my African thigh to their limit. It was a first time after many years. One never really forgets how to ride a bike, does one? By the time I got to campus about ten minutes later, I felt all the stretch my aching muscles and bones, and I thanked providence for the chance. It was one hell of a ride. On getting to Peck Hall, I saw the Cougar Village shuttle bus offloading its passengers and I waved at the woman driver. She waved back, and smiled. Yes, I would no longer be riding the bus anymore. Not all the time now, anyway, and it feels good. 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I have experienced those stages and I'm convinced that it is not just a sign of stress. As I type this, I am taking time off to swallow a horde of anti-malaria tablets to specification after this meal of warm roasted chicken. Where is that warm bosom to lay my wearied head? Where are those arms to pet me to sleep. Where are the hugs? Where are the kisses? Where is the cool soothing towel to keep my temperature down. There's no one here to pamper me. I am alone in my mandatory distress, so I stretch my legs and get under the duvet. Let the pillows be my comfort. Let their soft charming hold warm me up, cool me down, set me free into restful sleep. The air conditioning must also sleep tonight. I am cold enough. This is a mandatory rite of passage, and malaria must die. In just a few days of battle, it should all be over. Fansidar, Artesunat, Paracetamol, here is a chance for you to prove yourself on an alien soil. There are no more mosquitoes here to move and recycle my blood. You have no excuses. There is only this strange erratic weather which we must now adapt to, must now conquer together especially before the winter cold descends. This is war! And still, I must attend that excursion to Six Flags St. Louis tomorrow. I will not miss the Ferris Wheel and the breathtaking Roller Coaster rides for the world. First I will need to get off the computer, and rest. 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With a little fee, one was given twelve basket balls to throw into the net from a certain distance. Depending on how many you succeed in throwing in successfully, one got a gift of a new basket ball. Out of the twelve balls - four from each of the three sides of the court - guess how many I was able to put in: four! My gift is a new Hoyas basket ball which I promptly collected, and took with me as we went towards the rollercoasters. First we went on the fast and extra exhilarating ride at called the Batman, a fast-speeding demon that spins and twirls, defying gravity and taking you on a 360 degrees ride that lasts only about two minutes but leaves blood rushing to all your body parts, and your heart in your mouth. It is not for the weak-hearted, as the signs conspicuously warned, nor is it for the pregnant. Half the time you are upside down, and screaming. By the time we left there, I had a new profound appreciation of life. We all did. It was scaaaaary. After two minutes in the seats of many of those rides, I can tell you this: you would definitely reappraise your appreciation of life. Like they say back home, "your life would never remain the same again." (Note: I've never confirmed whether that phrase always described a positive thing.) Check out this YouTube video of a Batman Ride at Six Flags and decide for yourself. Tony Hawk I should also like to tell you how I chickened out when we got to the Superman Tower of Power: "an extreme free-fall ride that carries you to the top of the 230-foot tower, giving you a bird's-eye view of the park. Then, after a few seconds of gut-wrenching anticipation, you plunge down at over 60 mph." I could not handle it. Neither did a few of us as well, and it was up to Paul the Kenyan and Mary to test their hearts against gravity. They survived. Then we went onto Tony Hawk's Big Spin, the radical ride that twirls you as it hurls you down a 1,351-foot track. We survived that as well, then Mary and Paul took us to the scariest of them all, Mr Freeze. "Brrr. Prepare yourself for extreme thrills and chills. Mr. Freeze uses super-cool new linear induction technology to catapult you from zero to 70 mph in about four seconds. You'll blast out of a 190-foot icy tunnel and travel through 1,382 feet of track at spine-chilling speeds, twists, and turns. Then do it again in reverse." I couldn't handle that either, and I, along with a few other students, sat and just watched them. Check out a Youtube video of that experience. Again, this is not for the fainthearted. gateway-arch Then I should like to tell you about the water parks, how we swam, drank all-you-can-drink soda and lemonade, and how we enjoyed sliding through the three six-storey, high-speed body slides into the water down below. None of this can be adequately described until experienced. A second reason for my difficulty in successfully describing this experience is the loss of my Canon digital camera. Within nothing more than thirty seconds of leaving a spot in front of the men's dressing room where it undoubtedly must have fallen off while I was removing my jeans pants in preparation for swimming, we got back and couldn't find my camera anymore. Someone must have picked it up immediately after we moved away from there. At first I was optimistic for getting it back, then I became realistic: a theme park of such number of people numbering up to thousands from different backgrounds and upbringing could never be a place to leave a precious gadget even if it is for a few seconds. I went on to make official report/complaints at the Lost & Found section, and would expect their call if an unexpected miracle brings it out. A part of me has already given up on that possibility though. Now what would happen to all those nice pictures I took today and hoped to put up online tomorrow? How will I be able to prove that I was at Six Flags? That I saw the magnificent Gateway Arch with my own two eyes? This camera has been "flagged" off A common catchphrase from all the vendors and workers at Six Flags was "Have a Six Flags Day," whatever that means. I sure had one today, but at the expense of my precious point-and-shoot. I like to think it was "flagged" away by unknown aliens, and not the nice honest Americans that I have known. But now, whatever shall I do but remember today as the Saturday when I won a nice basket ball, and lost my precious camera all at Six Flags St. Louis, Missouri? You win some, you lose some. But what's more, I survived. I've just returned from Youtube to read that a freak accident at the Superman Tower of Power in St. Louis some time ago got the feet of a little girl cut off. 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with the notes I have, then bring out the numerous coins I have in my pocket, open my palms and let the cashier pick out the remaining 11cents herself. I mean which country is this that still spends coins when everything could be made in notes/bills? Couldn't they have at least taken some lesson from Africa's most populous country where less than three months after the coins are issued, nobody else accepts them from you except the surrendered taxi drivers on the campus of a few (in)sane Universities (like Ibadan). So here I was trying to grapple with the fact that a dollar consists of four quarters, ten dimes and a hundred cents. Bull! Bloody waste of precious time if you ask me, especially for this travula who must always first do a mental conversion of each of those amount he spends in dollars to Naira before he pays for the order. Yea, yea, I know I shouldn't still be thinking in Naira by now. But what shall a man do when his income is not unlimited? Sigh. And so it was even a greater wonder to find out that almost everything here takes money from you, mostly the coins. If you park your car at a parking meter, you put money in it. If you were speeding too much, the police would stop you and make you pay for a ticket. If you wanted a condom, or a drink of soda, there is a machine you could go and put a coin into, and your product would be dispensed immediately. I first saw the one for condoms at Heathrow airport. Who could have thought that somebody is already smart enough to know that people may wish to have sex while on a plane? My final wonder about vending machines came on Saturday when I had to do some washing. Interestingly there was a self-serviced laundry machine service in house #429. All you had to do was put in a dollar and your clothes would be washed clean. The only problem I had with that was the fact that the machine only took coins. And it was my first time. 25082009965 Now when Reham, my co FLTA from Egypt first took me into the laundry, all she said was, "You put your clothes in here, a dollar in here, in coins, and then press this. The machine would tell you how many minutes you have to wait and you can come back to pick your clothes. Then you take them out again, and put them in this other machine, put another dollar, in coins, press this, and it will tell you when to come and pick it. This second one is meant to dry them up." What she didn't say was that one also had to put some some detergent in the first machine. By the time I discovered this fact, my clothes had spent thirty-eight minutes in the machine, they were wet but they were not washed, and I had paid a dollar. I was vexed. All that money, and I still have to put in detergent myself! I was even more annoyed because prior to this oversight, I had wasted some three more quarters in a similar washing machine in this same building on this same day. What happened was that I had put in only three quarters, and failing to find one last quarter, I took the other coins I had with me (which turned out to be dimes and cents) and put them in the machine, hoping that it would just do the math and let me go. The machine refused to collect them (I later found out that it collected ONLY quarters) and it also refused to refund my three quarters already put in. Who says machines don't have criminal minds? Now when I buy coffee and the cashier begins to look for change. Instead of saying, "Oh, you may keep that", I stiffen up my upper lip as a now smarter Nigerian, and say "Oh, make that change in quarters, please. 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Ẹyin akẹkọọ," I started, and the class went silent! A thick, almost disqueting silence quieter than a deafman's graveyard. A second trial yielded a few suppessed sounds, but it attracted a more encouraging response. "Ẹ káàsán o. Ẹyin akẹkọọ." I said, again and I picked up a chalk to write it out. Then I wrote my name, in full, pointed at it, and contined. "Orúkọ mi ni Arákùnrin Kóla Ọlátúbòsún. Ẹyin Nkọ?" Everyone kept quiet, and looked a little amused. A few giggled, and it was just what I was waiting for. I touched my chest, moved away from the board, and repeated. "Orúkọ mi ni Arákùnrin Kóla." Then I pointed at the one with the most mischievous smile. "Iwọ nkọ?" She looked lost, as did a few more, and then after a little moment of almost uncomfortable silence, the bulb lighted in someone's brain and he shouted from the back, "Ross!" "Beautiful." I responded, the first time I would speak English in the class. They all felt at ease from then on, and each volunteered their name in turn: "Keonia, Adam, Amber, Tonde, etc." "But you shouldn't just say your name," I corrected. "You should preface it with 'Orúkọ mi ni...' then put in your name. Let's do it again in pairs, shall we?" "Kíni orúkọ rẹ?" "Orúkọ mi ni Amber. "Iwọ nkọ?" "Orúkọ mi ni Tonde." "Kíni orúkọ rẹ?" "Orúkọ mi ni Trish. "Iwọ nkọ?" "Orúkọ mi ni Ross." "Kíni orúkọ rẹ?" "Orúkọ mi ni Keonia. "Iwọ nkọ?" "Orúkọ mi ni Adam." ...and that went all around the class of thirteen students, only three of whom are black - out of which one (Tonde) is a Nigerian Ijaw. 24082009955 I turned out to be a better experience than I imagined, and I left the class feeling elated and swollen-headed. This is going to be fun. I am actually teaching my language in an American university. The aim of the course, if you're interested in knowing, is to make authentic Yoruba speakers out of those bright and brilliant American students. By the end of the class that lasted one and a quarter hour, we seemed to have forgotten about time, and all they wanted to say is "Sé alàáfíà ni", "Báwo ni", "Dáadáa ni. Iwọ nkọ?" If you have a child in Nigeria, Britain or America today to whom you have refused speak your language, you would have only yourself to blame when after they reach the age of twenty-one, you have to put thousands of dollars out just to make them learn it well, this time from those to whom it's not even a first language. As for me, I'm having fun here, and discovering interesting new things about my language, and how it comes across to the complete strangers hearing it for the very first time. By the next class, each of those students would have chosen their own personal Yoruba names to be used in class and everywhere else. No more Ross, Trish or Adam. 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I have heard some people wonder that I've been able to find my way really fast in such a short time. I seem to have got used to the weather, and all the flour foods a little quicker than they expected. Well, what can I say? I'm a Nigerian. We always adapt. Surely, the number of days I still have to spend here far outnumber the one I've already spent, so I can not do any countdown. It will be futile even to try. I can only count up. Today also marks the 16th day since I first posted on this blog. The blog journey began two days before my travel, and now it seems to have developed a mind and character of its own, with so many visitors every day, many of whom just sneak in and sneak out, leaving only a digital trail and no comments. Let me share with you a few more things I've learnt so far in the past couple of days. Some you already know. Some not. IMG_0122 (2) #1. Smile at everyone when you walk/ride past them, then give them a gentle nod. They should respond in kind. If they don't, don't take it personally, just keep moving. #2. Don't panic. Ask questions. Keep an open mind. Well, this is a no-brainer. They told us this at Providence. #3. Collect all your change in coins, preferably keep them in quarters. You would need them for the darling washing machine. #4. America may be an expensive country to live in, but they still do have structures to give back to the society. #5. Riding will help you sleep better. You also get to exercise your muscles, which is good to burn off all the fat got from eating junk food. #6. The cold is coming soon, and it will be brutal. Less daylight and more nighttime. Be ready to write some really boring romantic poems. For winter clothing, follow Karen's advice: buy only wool and fleece. Those would keep you warm. Run away from cotton. #7. Buy stuff from the internet. You're no longer in Nigeria where all the online shops refuse to ship their products to for fear of criminality. Patronize Amazon and the rest of them online bookseller. They deliver promptly and affordably. Buy from BestBuy and Goodwill. IMG_0104 #8. Give everyone the benefit of the doubt, whenever you can. #9. The fact that almost everyone here use their phone while driving doesn't mean you should do the same if you have to drive. What's more, don't try it when you get back home. #10. Have mad fun, but do not be careless. Listen to Papa Rudy. There are as many dishonest people around as their are honest ones in America. If I ever get a new camera, or anything else for that matter, keep it safe. And in spite of a few negatives which is not peculiar to this country or any for that matter, America indeed is a land of opportunities, and the Fulbright programme is one powerful vendor of crosscultural understanding. Here's to the next ten months! Yea, that DOES sound so looong.]]> 722 2009-08-26 01:38:47 2009-08-26 01:38:47 open open counting-up publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1251689230 154 serenataph@yahoo.com 41.219.226.14 2009-08-28 19:02:32 2009-08-28 19:02:32 1 0 0 IMG_0131 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/counting-up/img_0131-2/ Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:50:20 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_01311.jpg 728 2009-08-26 01:50:20 2009-08-26 01:50:20 open open img_0131-2 inherit 722 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_01311.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_01311.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:84:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_01311.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250326095";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"400";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:17:"0.016666666666667";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} IMG_0173 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/counting-up/img_0173-2/ Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:10:29 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_01731.jpg 732 2009-08-26 02:10:29 2009-08-26 02:10:29 open open img_0173-2 inherit 722 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_01731.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_01731.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:84:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_01731.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250309678";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:4:"1600";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:19:"0.00066666666666667";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} IMG_0104 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/counting-up/img_0104/ Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:13:56 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0104.jpg 733 2009-08-26 02:13:56 2009-08-26 02:13:56 open open img_0104 inherit 722 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0104.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0104.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0104.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250292789";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"400";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:17:"0.016666666666667";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} IMG_0122 (2) http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/counting-up/img_0122-2/ Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:18:55 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0122-2.jpg 735 2009-08-26 02:18:55 2009-08-26 02:18:55 open open img_0122-2 inherit 722 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0122-2.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0122-2.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"2736";s:6:"height";s:4:"3648";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:22:"height='96' width='72'";s:4:"file";s:85:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0122-2.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250307424";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:4:"1600";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:19:"0.00066666666666667";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Discovering Scott Joplin http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/discovering-scott-joplin/ Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:37:03 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=744 Miles Davis began their careers in nearby East St. Louis, Illinois. St. Louis is also home to the world-renowned Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra which was founded in 1880 and is the second oldest orchestra in the nation. The orchestra has received six Grammy Awards and fifty-six nominations. Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was born in Alton, Illinois, but spent the better part of his creative life in St. Louis. There is such a rich cultural heritage of Jazz, Blues and Poetry in this area of the United States, without a doubt. (Bio information from Wikipedia)]]> 744 2009-08-26 05:37:03 2009-08-26 05:37:03 open open discovering-scott-joplin publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1251643227 _edit_last 2145678 IMG_0815 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/i-lead-an-interesting-life/img_0815/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:53:14 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0815.jpg 767 2009-08-27 01:53:14 2009-08-27 01:53:14 open open img_0815 inherit 758 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0815.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0815.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0815.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250798864";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"400";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:4:"0.05";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Going, going...! http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/i-lead-an-interesting-life/img_0815-2/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:55:44 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_08151.jpg 769 2009-08-27 01:55:44 2009-08-27 01:55:44 open open img_0815-2 inherit 758 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_08151.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_08151.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:84:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_08151.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250798864";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"400";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:4:"0.05";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} IMG_0161 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/i-lead-an-interesting-life/img_0161-2/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:01:50 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_01611.jpg 771 2009-08-27 02:01:50 2009-08-27 02:01:50 open open img_0161-2 inherit 758 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_01611.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_01611.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:84:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_01611.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250308849";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:4:"1600";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:4:"0.01";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} I Lead An Interesting Life http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/i-lead-an-interesting-life/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:03:39 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=758 adire outfit, and about four different students from Nigeria find their way one after the other from within the campus throng just to introduce themselves to me as Nigerian students. When asked the obviously needless question about how they came to pick me out of such a large bustling of students and scholars, the look at me and wonder back how I don't already see the uniqueness of my appearance that stands me out. I have changed the title only because I have now fitted the regular occurences of those interesting things into a pattern of things that I can't always be able to explain. Just whenever I start worrying towards the end of the day that something interesting might not happen to me, they always did, and I accept them with open arms. The way of dressing and appearance, as I have now found out to my amazement, is actually a more serious endeavour than just mere fashion. They make a statement, and it is a part of losing one's identity when one no longer finds it necessary to dress in the way of one's people no matter where one is. Well, let me say that this is just my opinion. Going, going...! On the night of welcoming us here to campus, at the party hosted by the International Hospitality Programme, I had engaged a senior Indian student in a discussion about the beauty of long Indian hair when I saw and complimented a beautiful Indian student who had just walked past. He scoffed my compliment and told me in a half-conspiratorial tone that "If you ask her, you'd most likely find out that she's a first-year student. And that's why she still looks Indian. By next year, she'd have become more Americanized, and she'd have cut off all that hair which now reaches down to her waist. You'll see." It sounded funny so I pretended to laugh it off, but thinking seriously about the charge. Could this be true? Indeed, all the older Indian students I know here have short hair. Could he be telling the truth? A few minutes later when the programme started, I got another chance to meet the lady in question and I asked her what her major was and her level as well. It was a wonder to learn that indeed she was a first-year student, and was just arriving in the United States. I asked her if she would ever think of cutting her hair off, and she said "no, never." Sai however thinks that her response to me was just a standard response, the same kind I'm likely to get from all fresh students from India. It was just a matter of time before they all become Americanized. IMG_0161 Now how do Americans look? I really have no clear idea either, but I can tell you for sure that they don't look a lot like I did today when I rode to school in an Adire attire. What's in a dress/appearance anyway? A saying in my native Yoruba language can after all be loosely translated as: "A tree adorned in the most beautiful attire is not thus ennobled." Now as I was leaving my linguistics class taught by Kristine Hilderbrandt this evening, all stressed up and almost wishing that the requirement of my Fulbright programme didn't include a necessarily class attendance for some Masters courses here in the University, but on the other hand also grateful for the rare opportunity, I was wondering whether there was anything else interesting that would happen to me before the end of the day, when I was accosted by this coursemate of mine from the same class I was just leaving. He's an American graduate student who has been grouped with me in the first class assignment. He was animated, and looked a little overexcited. To be fair to him, he was just looking to make a conversation, but I wasn't. I'd had enough work for the day and all I wanted to do was just go home and rest. As I zipped my bag and waited for him to say something smart, he shifted a little and stuttered out the words that first stunned, later amused, but absolutely tested my patience for just a little while before goading me homewards. "Oh Cola, so how/when/where did you learn to speak in English?" He asked. I never saw that one coming! But what can I say? I do lead an interesting life!]]> 758 2009-08-27 02:03:39 2009-08-27 02:03:39 open open i-lead-an-interesting-life publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1251642066 _edit_last 2145678 140 rayosword@yahoo.com http://all4words.blogspot.com 77.220.15.135 2009-08-27 10:13:39 2009-08-27 10:13:39 1 0 0 144 yemitubosun@yahoo.com 80.248.9.50 2009-08-27 14:04:20 2009-08-27 14:04:20 1 0 0 146 kiibaati@gmail.com 41.191.109.130 2009-08-27 18:26:20 2009-08-27 18:26:20 1 0 0 157 laitantubosun@yahoo.com 80.248.9.50 2009-08-29 06:47:40 2009-08-29 06:47:40 1 0 0 159 serenataph@yahoo.com 41.219.225.197 2009-08-29 12:15:18 2009-08-29 12:15:18 1 0 0 166 tolabenson2k6@yahoo.co.uk 82.128.20.212 2009-08-29 21:31:11 2009-08-29 21:31:11 1 0 0 167 tolabenson2k6@yahoo.co.uk 82.128.20.212 2009-08-29 21:33:53 2009-08-29 21:33:53 1 0 0 Is "Oyinbo" A Derogatory Word? http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/is-oyinbo-a-derogatory-word/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:24:53 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=780 Oyinbos, and they are called by that name both in public and in private, which brings a huge question on whether the users of the word ever mean it as a derogatory expression. The answer of course would be a NO. However, I personally have never considered it a compliment of any sort when while walking with a white/caucasian person (even within a campus environment), passers-by most of whom are complete and unwelcome strangers yell "Oyinbo!" while pointing and giggling excitely at the now totally embarrased stranger. Most of all these cases are a confirmed result of illiteracy, mental retardation or some sadomasochistic instinct on the part of the yeller to make a public nuisance of both themselves and their foreign target. Of course! But this fact doesn't remove from the despicableness of the act, or make the word in that instance less derogatory-like. "So, when used in a civil, polite conversation, Oyinbo is mainly a harmless term of reference, but it is insulting only when it is yelled out loud, especially by a(n unaquainted, unfriendly) stranger." How does one explain all of this easily in a class of an elementary course on language and culture without raising red flags and unnecessarily preconditioning the mind of impressionable students to a hostile, negative cultural experience? That was my dilemma on that beautiful Wednesday afternoon. I resolved the situation in favour of common sense, and the concise explanation I gave before moving to the next topic was a "No please, that's not a derogative word. It is a fun word of endearment used by the Yoruba to refer to those they perceive differently because of their skin colour." But I left the class a little worried that I myself do not totally agree with that description for its lack of depth and breath to capture all that the word "oyinbo" entails, and for the way that definition might be wrongly construed as a racist/derogatory tag. Fact is, the image that flashed across my mind when I think about it is that of a cacophonous horde of dirty little stray children chanting "Oyinbo pepper" after a foreign pedestrian on a public Lagos park, and totally enjoying the embarassment on the face of that now despairing foreigner who curses under her breath, wonders what went wrong with this world, and wishes she had not taken up the invitation to come visit Nigeria. Yorubaland. What do you think?]]> 780 2009-08-27 07:24:53 2009-08-27 07:24:53 open open is-oyinbo-a-derogatory-word publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1251642016 139 rayosword@yahoo.com http://all4words.blogspot.com 77.220.15.131 2009-08-27 10:11:18 2009-08-27 10:11:18 1 0 0 143 yemitubosun@yahoo.com 80.248.9.50 2009-08-27 13:47:27 2009-08-27 13:47:27 1 0 0 145 kiibaati@gmail.com 41.191.109.130 2009-08-27 18:19:32 2009-08-27 18:19:32 1 0 0 160 serenataph@yahoo.com 41.219.225.197 2009-08-29 12:35:46 2009-08-29 12:35:46 1 0 0 169 tolabenson2k6@yahoo.co.uk 82.206.136.14 2009-08-30 00:07:52 2009-08-30 00:07:52 1 0 0 191 bukola303@yahoo.com 196.46.245.21 2009-09-01 07:19:42 2009-09-01 07:19:42 1 0 0 IMG_0379 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/the-trip-to-boston/img_0379/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:28:50 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0379.jpg 800 2009-08-27 13:28:50 2009-08-27 13:28:50 open open img_0379 inherit 147 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0379.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0379.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0379.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"4.9";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250415966";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:4:"18.6";s:3:"iso";s:3:"160";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:5:"0.001";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} IMG_0255 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/a-short-foodlist-of-ps/img_0255/ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:18:46 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0255.jpg 812 2009-08-28 01:18:46 2009-08-28 01:18:46 open open img_0255 inherit 811 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0255.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0255.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0255.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250365060";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"400";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:17:"0.033333333333333";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} IMG_0678 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/a-short-foodlist-of-ps/img_0678/ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:35:50 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/img_0678.jpg 813 2009-08-28 01:35:50 2009-08-28 01:35:50 open open img_0678 inherit 811 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/img_0678.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0678.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/08/img_0678.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250688665";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"400";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:17:"0.016666666666667";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} A Short Foodlist of Ps http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/a-short-foodlist-of-ps/ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:37:51 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=811 Before my sister Laitan asked me yesterday, in an email, what food I've been eating since I got here, I had been meaning to write another post on the different food items I have encountered, most of which are flour-based, and my despair in finding most of the African foods I'm already used to. Some weeks ago in Providence, Rhode Island, we were invited to an international night of American cuisines and here were my thoughts on the food we ate then. Then a few days ago, I read a post/piece on Loomnie's blog about the problem of finding African food to buy in Europe, and felt sufficiently motivated. Here now is a short list of American food and food items starting with "P" that I have had since I got here. Enjoy. IMG_0255
  • Pawpaw
  • Poultry eggs/Poached egg
  • Pasta
  • Pizza/Pie
  • Pepperoni
  • Pancakes/Pretzels/Pringles
  • Peanuts
  • Peanut Buttercups
  • Potato Chips
  • Potato Salad
  • Pineapple juice
  • Pumpkin seeds
If you are reading this in Nigeria, do not ask me about "Puff-puff", "Palm wine", "Pounded yam", "Pito" or "Paraga". Do not ask about "Pọnmọ" either. They do not yet exist in my Edwardsville radar of P-foods. But one of these days, when I return from my next trip to St. Louis to visit an African food shop, I should be able to tell you more from what I would have newly discovered. I have now just come off the phone with my host/adopted family who have invited me for a Picnic on Saturday. They've asked me to come very hungry because the whole neighbourhood would be cooking, not just for me, but for everyone. And just when I thought I had my P-list exhausted, she dropped the info that there would also be a feat of whole roasted Pig. What I have not told her is that I'm not so much of a Pork fan, and this might be where I draw a line on my P-experiments in gastronomy. Until then, I will keep enjoying my pastries, with potato salad and pepperoni sauce.]]> 811 2009-08-28 01:37:51 2009-08-28 01:37:51 open open a-short-foodlist-of-ps publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1251841407 148 yemitubosun@yahoo.com 41.203.111.26 2009-08-28 07:26:45 2009-08-28 07:26:45 1 0 0 149 Raphade_tech@yahoo.Com 94.246.126.197 2009-08-28 10:22:59 2009-08-28 10:22:59 1 0 0 150 yemitubosun@yahoo.com 80.248.9.50 2009-08-28 10:58:51 2009-08-28 10:58:51 1 0 0 151 serenataph@yahoo.com 41.219.226.14 2009-08-28 18:24:46 2009-08-28 18:24:46 1 0 0 156 bukkies@yahoo.com 89.204.238.166 2009-08-28 19:15:40 2009-08-28 19:15:40 1 0 0 181 yemitubosun@yahoo.com 80.248.9.50 2009-08-31 10:54:38 2009-08-31 10:54:38 1 0 0 188 rajbolls4u@yahoo.com 41.205.176.176 2009-08-31 22:03:42 2009-08-31 22:03:42 1 0 0 Lt. 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http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/i-remember-providence/ Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:34:21 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=836 Today, I remember the day we were taken to downtown Providence by the Brown University staff and students in order to meet with the Lt. Governor, Hon Elizabeth Roberts. It was August the 14th 2009, and it was a mild culture shock to many of us to discover that the Lt. Governor - another name for Deputy Governor -  was a woman. In my case, it was not such a big deal, especially since I come from a country that could boast of having given women a chance to become almost everything they wanted to be (and then almost always craftily taken that chance back from them. Some people in Nigeria today no doubt might find similarity in that with the many instances of American political landscape when they try to compare the case of Governor Sara Palin of Alaska with Nigeria's Representative Patriciah Etteh, even though the circumstances of their exit are actually not much alike.) In any case, the Lt. Governor recognized the shock many might feel about her position when she mentioned in her address her solidarity with, and support for women who come from such repressive countries. Yea/Nay: A Legislator's SeatI remember Providence again today because I remember home. We do not have as much a problem with gender in Nigeria today as we do with tranparency, order and discipline. I remembered walking through the legislative chambers of the Rhode Island Senators, and noticing that instead of the antiquated show of hands or a rabble-rousing ayes and nays when voting on a point, the Senators there all had a monitor and little coloured bottons on their seats which they press, corresponding with their choice of vote. In just a few seconds, as soon as everyone has cast their votes by pressing either "aye", "nay" or "abstain", all the votes are tallied and shown on a large electronic board, and each person's vote shown clearly against their name. In the Nigerian Legislative houses today, it is usually a long tortuous session (sometimes involving fisticuffs) to decide whether the "ayes" or the "nays" have it, all in spite of the fact that every Friday evening, the whole country tunes in to watch the "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" game show where the simple technology of electronic voting and collation is shown to be not such a big deal. Talk about priorities. A Student Government Assembly I thought of Providence, and I thought of home when, while walking through the SIUE campus today, I saw an assembly of student legislators conducting a house meeting in an open court, all decently dressed, composed and articulate. There was no one on their feet with a folded sleeve, a bandana, or a fist raised yelling somewhat like this: Greatest Articulate SIUE Students!!! Today's tortuous issues must be germanely and systematically articulated to send thunderous atomic vibrations all around the precincts of this University domicile, that the Vice Chancellor is a thief and must be violently removed to show our disgust with his diabolical shenanigans etc... Aluta Continua...!!! Everyone here was seated and decorous around the table as they made their point to the representative of the University who listened with attention. You must give America's University this: everybody is given their deserved and equal respect. These among other things is where the country derives its unequalled greatness: order, discipline and mutual respect. We might want to learn from that.]]> 836 2009-08-29 06:34:21 2009-08-29 06:34:21 open open i-remember-providence publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1251641914 _edit_last 2145678 158 serenataph@yahoo.com 41.219.225.197 2009-08-29 11:53:28 2009-08-29 11:53:28 1 0 0 164 tolabenson2k6@yahoo.co.uk 82.128.20.212 2009-08-29 21:02:39 2009-08-29 21:02:39 1 0 0 185 rayosword@yahoo.com http://all4words.blogspot.com 62.173.34.38 2009-08-31 11:48:04 2009-08-31 11:48:04 1 0 0 Cold! http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/cold/ Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:28:34 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=854 Cold is a far greater threat to survival than it appears. It decreases your ability to think and weakens your will to do anything except to get warm. Cold is an insidious enemy; as it numbs the mind and body, it subdues the will to survive. Cold makes it very easy to forget your ultimate goal--to survive. - http://www.firstaidneeds.com/survivalch15pg38
It is seventeen degrees celcius here in Edwardsville, and my room mate has the fan on. Like him, I'm not wearing a shirt as I lay on the bed only because somehow, I am still able to cope with this weather. In his own case, it is because he feels hot. "Are you kidding me? You feel hot in this temperature?" I asked in part amazement and part dread. "No," he responded, "this is not cold at all. Cold begins in November."
I've had this conversation a lot of times since I arrived here, and all of them usually ends with a warning that I should be both mentally and physically prepared to endure three gruelling months of subzero cold,  I mean below zero degrees! My physical preparation must have to do with fleshening up by eating as much fat foods as possible. The second is buying all appropriate clothings. Just today, I bought a thick woolen jacket at a strip mall in town. They didn't have any gloves, hats, mufflers and boots for me or I would have bought those too. In any case, I still have a few more weeks more before it becomes impossible to go out in a simple jeans and t-shirt. With fattening up, I seem to have little problem, thanks to cheese burgers and cheese pizzas. But then, the conversations eventually gets scarier when people start to describe what it is really like to be in a temperature at freezing point.
I am a warm-blooded animal and I have never lived in anywhere below 12degrees, and that is why it gets scary. Maybe I'll just pack my bags and flee to Ibadan when it gets to a point when hot coffee and aboniki rub fail to lift my spirit and I can't take it anymore. I think about it for a while and then change my mind. Maybe it's not so bad. And then I look into the freezer and think about what it must be like to sleep in one of those. I am optimistic, but I still don't know what I'll do when December comes, then Janary, and the coldest one of them, February.
Cold is a far greater threat to survival than it appears. It decreases your ability to think and weakens your will to do anything except to get warm. Cold is an insidious enemy; as it numbs the mind and body, it subdues the will to survive. Cold makes it very easy to forget your ultimate goal--to survive. - http://www.firstaidneeds.com/survivalch15pg38 It is seventeen degrees celcius here in Edwardsville, and my room mate has the fan on. Like him, I'm also not wearing a shirt as I lay on the bed, but only because somehow I am still able to cope with this weather. In his own case, it is because he feels hot. "Are you kidding me? You feel hot in this temperature?" I asked in part amazement and part dread. "No," he responded, "this is not cold at all. Cold begins in November." I've had this conversation a lot of times since I arrived here, and all of them usually ends with a warning that I should be both mentally and physically prepared to endure three gruelling months of subzero cold,  I mean below zero degrees! My physical preparation must have to do with fleshening up by eating as much fat foods as possible. The second is buying all appropriate clothings. Just today, I bought a thick woolen jacket at a strip mall in town. They didn't have any gloves, hats, mufflers and boots for me or I would have bought those too. In any case, I still have a few more weeks more before it becomes impossible to go out in a simple jeans and t-shirt. With fattening up, I seem to have little problem, thanks to cheese burgers and cheese pizzas. But then, the conversations eventually gets scarier when people start to describe what it is really like to be in a temperature at freezing point. I am a warm-blooded animal and I have never lived in anywhere below 12degrees, and that is why it gets scary. Maybe I'll just pack my bags and flee to Ibadan when it gets to a point when hot coffee and aboniki rub fail to lift my spirit and I can't take it anymore. I think about it for a while and then change my mind. Maybe it's not so bad. And then I look into the freezer and think about what it must be like to sleep in one of those. I am optimistic, but I still don't know what I'll do when December comes, then January, and the coldest one of them, February. Whatever shall I do? 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It has a lake. #2. It is peaceful, quiet and romantic, and many people who live there would rather ride their bikes, or walk, than ride in their cars. One could hear the bird chirps and the frogs' mating calls during long walks beside the lake. #3. My flatmate, in addition to not knowing who Halle Berry is, also has never heard of the song/phenomenon "We Are the World." Does this count? #4. It has plenty deers, plenty geese, plenty cats and squirrels. It used to have two live cougars, but since one died and the other was donated to an animal centre, it doesn't anymore. #5. It is removed from school, and even far removed from downtown Edwardsville. #6. It doesn't have a public drinking bar. IMG_0568 #7. It has had a power outage at least once this month, which lasted for more than 12 hours. #8. Almost everyone knows someone who knows someone that everyone knows. It only has 62 buildings - in which are 496 apartments. Each apartment has an average of three residents, so you know how many we are. We can't form a local council in Nigeria even if we try. #9. The buses that go there do so only on schedule - 15 minutes interval. #10. It is called a Village, duh! 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It doesn't have mosquitoes. #2. Almost everyone here has a car, and there are adequate traffic signs on its perfectly tarred, perfectly networked roads. There are traffic lights where necessary, and the signs tell the cars when to stop and where not to. It has an efficient transport system - nice large buses free for students and all other residents - that arrives on schedule. #3. Everyone who lives there is educated, at least beyond four years of University education. Does that count? #4. Cougar Village has a standard post office. Every apartment has a mailbox into which letters are safely delivered. All is part of the bill. #5. It's an expensive place to live in, one that gives good service for the money paid. #6. It has regular police patrols. IMG_0564 #7. It has wireless internet access, and electric power supply 24/7. This is notwithstanding that one time exception. There is an active telephone and data jacks in every room, and GSM service actually works there. Let's just say it has all the basic utilities necessary for a sane, civilized survival. (NB: I heard the word "generator" yesterday for the first time in three weeks - from my Nigerian friend on the internet, and it sounded strange to the ears. Pardon me Nigeria for forgetting what that word, and others like "conductor", "danfo", "LASTMA" and "PHCN/NEPA", means.) #8. It has a laundry service which you have to pay for, of course. #9. It has wide recreation centres that include basketball, tennis and sand volleyball courts. #10. 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"Teachers have Class." "I'm not Procrastinating. I'm planning." Memorable Sights:
  • Flags on campus flying at half-mast for Senator Edward Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009).
  • A stuffed, roasted pig taking an apple bite at a home picnic.
  • House #419 at Cougar Village. I would rather not live in such a house. Pardon my sensitivity!
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I can't always depend on my laptop computer while mobile and fully packed. But as I went into the University Bookshop yesterday with an intention to pick up an iPod nano which costs far less than its expensive siblings, I was called aside by the student staff of the Apple stand to be advised to wait for a little while more - maybe until December - before buying, and I might get a Nano with a camera for the same current price. Those familiar with Apple will recognize this as the most defining characteristics of that electronics giant: they offer a product first without its most needed, most complimentary accessory, and then after six months or a year, they suddenly wake up to offer it, sometimes for an extra cost, as a new product. It took them over four upgrades before the iPhone finally got a video camera, cut/paste feature and a zoom. Yet they're supposed to be the geniuses of the market. It is probably going to take them ages to think of Bluetooth function for the iPods so that music sharing could be more easily done. Now the camera part of the coming iPod definitely makes me giddy, but December is too far away. The 2megapixels on my Nokia N70 never did measure up to the 10megapixels of my canon camera which was flagged off, and I don't presume that the iPod camera will be any much better. Nevertheless, it's a good addition if it won't cost so much extra. So yes, I am not going to buy an iPhone anytime soon. Or maybe I will. Who knows. For now, my mind is on the iPod, whether it be the Classic (120GB) or the Nano (16GB), camera or no camera and I am already prepared for the periodic fasting period that must necessarily attend any such spending. I've long given up on the possibility on making a good purchasing decision based on advertising jingles rather than product specification and user experience. There is always something better out there, and notwithstanding the choice I make, I will always have the moments when I look back and wonder, "What was I thinking!"  It's always tempting, to say the least, to want to have a product that meets your needs, and makes you feel good. It's no wonder they call it the "Apple." For me, the good news is that we are in Ramadan, and Reham my Egyptian colleague is a moslem. 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He sounded Asian, but I couldn't be sure because of the way the American accent bounced off his tongue right into my ears. "Hi, just call me Kola." I said. I was busy with some translation work on my laptop, and with a few more people in the chat window. "Yes, Mr. Callerwarl... you recently tried to register for Google ATM, so we are calling to give you more information about Google ATM, and how you can make money with it online." My instincts on this one clearly warned me to hang up the phone, because from the haze of my memory, what I read about Google ATM already raised red flags in my mind. They are not affiliated to Google, yet they use the name as if Google put them up to it. The company's name only rhymed with Spam in my Nigerian mind. But I remained a little calm. "Really," I said, "I'm sorry I think I cancelled the registration. I wasn't interested anymore." "That's what we thought, and that's why I'm calling, to explain more how the program works and how you can make money using Google ATM." He replied. I was truly busy, and I wasn't interested. Haven't I already proven the second fact by not completing the online registration? "I'm sorry." I said. "I'm really busy but if you could give me a link online where I can read up everything about it, I'll be more than glad to read it up at my spare time. I don't think I found plenty information about it when I checked, and right now, I'm pretty occupied. Do you mind?" "Mr. Callerwarl... I am calling to explain it all to you. You see, I can tell you now how you can make money online with our service. We'll send you the kit in less than 24 hours." Then I had a worrying thought. "Wait a minute. Am I paying for this call?" I asked. It's always good to be sure. "No." "Okay." I said, assured. "Let me also ask, just to be sure. Have I agreed to any part of your service yet?" "No. That's why I'm calling so as to tell you how." He said "You only need to pay a dollar and ...cents for the package that will be sent to you in less than 24 hours... " "So it's not like I've agreed and signed up. No? Good. Please continue." Have you heard of Craigslist?" He asked. "Yes, I have." I said. "You can make money through the website by advertising." He didn't care to explain. He only asked again. "Have you heard of blogging?" This one flipped me. "I think so." I replied. "Those are ways to make money through our Google ATM... We will send you a complete package as soon as I sign you up..." "Oh, thank you." I said, stopping him once again. "As much as I would have loved to hear you go on, I really have to work. I may sign up. I may not. But if I could only get your website, I can go and read more." "Let me have one and a half minutes of your time, and I'll explain it to you here how..." he continued. "Really, I wish I had that much time. Do you not have a website link where I can check all I need to know?" I asked. "No, but I can tell you..." "I'm sorry. I can't talk now." "Is there any other time when I can call you?" "No, not really." I said. I'd rather you let me read it up myself." "Okay, no problems. Thank you for taking this call, Mr. Callerwarl..." He said, sounding a little disappointed, and hung up after I thanked him too. He didn't give me any internet links. Apparently, to such an important and customer-friendly company, an assuring phone call is a better way to get loyal clients than robotic internet pages. Oh America! My restless Nigerian fingers immediately went to Google to read more. Here among other things was what I discovered in the fine print of the agreement everyone signs at that point of registration (All emphasis mine): "By submitting this form I authorize Google ATM (DRI*GoogleATM) to immediately charge my credit card $1.95 USD for the setup of the Google ATM Home Business Kit. I hereby request that Google ATM (DRI*GoogleATM) activate my account and authorize them to advance funds as indicated. Monthly Service fees will commence seven days from the date of this purchase, and will be billed monthly thereafter. After the seven day trial you will be billed Sixty nine dollars and ninety cents USD monthly for the continued access to the Google Money Making System. No refunds will be given for failure to use the requested and provided services. We reserve the right to transfer your billing to a third party Merchant of Record." See, it is sometimes good to have come from Nigeria. You read everything before you sign it. 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The reason is, the first time I saw one of these deers at Cougar Village, I was in a car, and the animals were too far away. In any case, they could have easily escaped back into the bush if we had tried to park close to them. The second time I saw another herd, I had lost my camera and my Nokia phone would not zoom close to them before they again wandered off. While riding back from campus yesterday, I came across these ones grazing by the roadside. Luckily they were close enough, and were tolerant enough to humour me for the little time I spent posing to shoot them. With my phone camera, of course, silly! Enjoy the photos. 010920091138A few other interesting things have happened to me since last week. My classmate in the Linguistics Master's class had gone into Wikipedia over the weekend to learn more about Nigeria, and I was pleasantly surprised and genuinely impressed with how much he had known by the time we met on Monday to discuss the class assignment. Guess his name, by the way: It's  Chris! I always seem to be blessed with one new Chris everywhere I go, and they always turn out to be really intriguing characters. For every Chris Brown, there always seem to be a Chris Rock somewhere to compensate. Glory be! And a few days ago, when this new Chris finally became my Facebook friend, I found that his recent status update had been "Chris now knows that English is the national language of Nigeria." God bless the Fulbright program! 010920091135The academic session here on campus is switching into full gear, and I've already submitted one assignment for the Linguistics class. One of my first observations in this postgraduate class, beside the fact that many of my classmates were not at all familar with phonetics was that the syllabus in the masters class was full of the topics I already covered since my first year in the University of Ibadan. This must be why students coming from Africa always seem to perform better at Masters level in foreign universities. It also throws light on the wrong assumption that all of our academic establishments back home are substandard, and that the standard of education has fallen to an abyssmal low. Yes we do have a lack as regards infrastructure, but what we lack in up-to-date state-of-the-art facilities, we often compensate for with hardwork and doggedness. 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There's only one reason that I can now offer for my inability to immediately open the door when I came back with the right key. In America, things are not always what they are back home, and this doesn't have anything to do with disparity in development but only a matter of national individuality, and difference. The American nation was built on deliberate indifference and sometimes outright rebellion from all things conventional or - let me say it - British. It is well documented in books and literatures the American preference for simpler spelling and speech forms in written English and why LABOR misses the British U, and why COLOR, BURNED and LEARNED are no longer written as COLOUR, BURNT and LEARNT as we still do back home. American lawyers don't wear the gown and wigs as we do at home, still gullibly aping an old British tradition that scoffs common sense of the African weather-influenced dressing style. Thinking about that fact right now, I do not envy the accused, or even the witness, in a Nigerian electoral dispute court case who has to stand for hours in the middle of scores of sweating legal practitioners in a heavily crowded room with camera lights, body heat, and overworking ceiling fans. At least in Britain where the gown-wearing practice began, they have the cold weather as an excuse for such elaborate clothing for their lawyers. The reason why I could not open the door that day were two, as I later found out: one I had only one key and I couldn't immediately fathom that it was possible for just one key could open the two locks on the door. I have since discovered that the same key also opened my room, a little store room in the corridor of the house allocated to my apartment, and my post office box situated within the Commons Building Post Office on the other side of Cougar Village, just two minutes away. The second reason of course was that I was busy turning the key to the right within the lock, as I always did at home, when I should have been turning it to the left. Whoever came up with the idea of turning everything British around must have been a friggin' genius. The light comes on when you push the switches on the wall up, not down. The toilet's flushing lever is situated not on the right side of the tank but on the left. And to put off my bed lamp, I would keep turning the lamp's switch clockwise, just like I do when putting it on, instead of turning it anti-clockwise to switch it off. Besides, it's called "counter-clockwise" in American English, and unless I intend to unscrew the knob, I only need to keep turning it clockwise to switch it on, then off, then on again, ad infinitum. Need I mention the intersting American sockets and their inability to accommodate British-like plugs like that of my Nokia phone charger without an adaptor. I mean, in Nigeria, you could still plug the American-styled flat plugs into the general sockets, right? 14082009874 There are many noticeable opposites I've found since I landed here than can be listed in a short post. Some tended towards simplification, (personally, I think the British are sometimes too stuck-up in conservatism to accept much needed change. More on this later.) while the others are just different for no other reason than plain American individualism. A few more are just plain ludicrous. In the whole of the world, the United States is the only country that writes its dates months first, so today's date in America is 09/05/09. I don't write like this, by the way. I also noticed while in Boston and Rhode Island how everyone was always on the phone while driving. It looked almost like an incurable disease that seemed to have infected everyone at the same time. One hand on the steering wheel, and the other holding a mobile phone to the ear. And what about the big healthcare debate of the moment which has had the president reducing his policy message to these few words on twitter and facebook: "...thinks no one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick." in order to get the message as clearly as possible to those in opposition who have opposed his healthcare reform with all the strength they have got, and all the vile? I am now hearing of parents in the United States who have sworn to prevent their children from listening to the President's planned televised broadcast to school children next week because they believe the President is only trying to brainwash the little children into his "socialist" policy. What? Yes, you heard right. Here is a country of so much laws, yet so little order in things that should ordinarily amount from common sense. Well, there's a name for that. No not madness, silly. It's called Democracy. It's called Freedom!]]> 1185 2009-09-05 07:50:48 2009-09-05 07:50:48 open open in-a-country-of-opposites publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1252145259 221 tayowrites@gmail.com http://bookaholicblog.blogspot.com/ 41.219.214.124 2009-09-06 06:31:22 2009-09-06 06:31:22 1 0 0 223 bukola303@yahoo.com 41.220.75.15 2009-09-06 16:54:00 2009-09-06 16:54:00 1 0 0 14082009874 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/in-a-country-of-opposites/attachment/14082009874/ Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:04:55 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/14082009874.jpg 1204 2009-09-05 08:04:55 2009-09-05 08:04:55 open open 14082009874 inherit 1185 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/14082009874.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/14082009874.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1024";s:6:"height";s:3:"768";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:86:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/14082009874.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"3.2";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:5:"N70-1";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250264513";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"4.5";s:3:"iso";s:2:"80";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:8:"0.059213";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} 14082009870 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/in-a-country-of-opposites/attachment/14082009870/ Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:58:28 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/14082009870.jpg 1206 2009-09-05 08:58:28 2009-09-05 08:58:28 open open 14082009870 inherit 1185 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/14082009870.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/14082009870.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1024";s:6:"height";s:3:"768";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:86:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/14082009870.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"3.2";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:5:"N70-1";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250263964";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"4.5";s:3:"iso";s:3:"125";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:8:"0.007396";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} IMG_0601 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/no-blues/img_0601-2/ Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:13:53 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/img_0601.jpg 1223 2009-09-06 04:13:53 2009-09-06 04:13:53 open open img_0601-2 inherit 1214 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/img_0601.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/img_0601.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/img_0601.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:25:"Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1250543144";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"320";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:17:"0.066666666666667";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} 23082009952 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/no-blues/attachment/23082009952/ Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:22:52 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/23082009952.jpg 1225 2009-09-06 04:22:52 2009-09-06 04:22:52 open open 23082009952 inherit 1214 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/23082009952.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/23082009952.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1024";s:6:"height";s:3:"768";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:86:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/23082009952.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"3.2";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:5:"N70-1";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1251053877";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"4.5";s:3:"iso";s:2:"80";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:8:"0.014798";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} No Blues http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/no-blues/ Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:39:56 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=1214 And they circled his curious, precocious head like a cloud of bubbling mists and mirths. Of the many possible encouraging excuses already stood out the killing Midwestern winter cold, and a certain loneliness that often stares brazenly sometimes from whirlwind tides of testosterone fits. Ride boy, ride. Swim boy, swim. Shoot boy, shoot the hoops again and again with your prized basketballs of fun harmless gamesmanship. Take on the windy evenings with all your righteous rage, long before a final cap at the hot shower that should either temper or scramble the distant mind onto the pleasant edge. Do not go gentle into that good, good night! His mischievous self only imagines a different body frame, similar to his, as projected forward in an exaggerated swagger, bouncing all around town in faded jeans and a smile, asking whomever catches his fancy: "Hey, do you want a piece of this?" No, he thinks, now back to his senses, he only stares at a distant bench overlooking the setting sun, and finding them at the moment not any different nor possessing any inspiring light from where he stood, takes in sweetly the sight of the young couple who sat gently pensive, observing the not too silent lake in front of them.]]> 1214 2009-09-06 04:39:56 2009-09-06 04:39:56 open open no-blues publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1252215953 _edit_last 2145678 220 tayowrites@gmail.com http://bookaholicblog.blogspot.com/ 41.219.214.124 2009-09-06 05:49:18 2009-09-06 05:49:18 1 0 0 222 kiibaati@gmail.com 41.191.109.130 2009-09-06 07:43:03 2009-09-06 07:43:03 1 0 0 060920091208 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/church-sunday/attachment/060920091208/ Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:27:41 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/060920091208.jpg 1246 2009-09-06 18:27:41 2009-09-06 18:27:41 open open 060920091208 inherit 1245 0 attachment 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observations. The service was orderly, and timely. Offering was voluntary, and it didn't involve an elaborate show that requires you to dance all around the church to the front pulpit many times during the service to drop your (special, building, monthly, thanksgiving etc) offering. In many ways, the church reminds me of  Anglican and Catholic church services back home. The church structure surely looks orthodox, and could as well have been a Catholic church with its pews, stained glass windows, elaborately lighted altar and the Eucharist. But Episcopal churches are Protestant, that sect that stands separate from the British Anglican church only in its many revolutionary ideas and ideals. The Episcopal Church is the American version of the Anglican Church, but only to the extent of their adherence to the basic service patterns. In many other ways they are very different, very wide apart. 060920091196 060920091198Wikpedia says "the Episcopal Church was active in the Social Gospel movement of the late nineteenth century and since the 1960s and 1970s has played a leading role in the progressive movement and on related political issues. For example, in its resolutions on state issues the Episcopal Church has opposed the death penalty, and supported the civil rights movement and affirmative action. Some of its leaders and priests marched with civil rights demonstrators. The church calls for the full civil equality of gay men and lesbians. 060920091200Most dioceses ordain openly gay men and women; in some, same-sex unions are celebrated with services of blessing, but "no diocese currently permits same-sex marriage...even in those states and municipalities which permit it." On the question of abortion, the church has adopted a nuanced position. About all these issues, individual members and clergy can and do frequently disagree with the stated position of the church." Surely, here is a religious institution with active involvement in social engineering. 060920091194 The head of this particular church I attended - the priest who officiated the service today - was a woman. In priestly robes. I'd heard so much about women bishops and the disagreement this issue has caused between the Anglican churches in Britain and Nigeria and the Episcopal church. Apparently, it is proving a little difficult for the rest of the world to come to terms with having women on the altar as officiating priests and bishops. I've since found out that she - The Rev. Virginia L. Bennet - is also a PhD holder. In Nigeria, her name may have to be written as The (Dr.) Rev. Mrs Virginia L. Bennet (PhD, D. Min, Rector) etc... 060920091207 After the service that included some really beautiful hymns, a few of which I still could sing along to, we all went for a light refreshment of the best kind, all within the church premises. When George Carlin said in Brain Droppings that "the only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music," he must not have attended one of these church services where feeding the body is equally as important as feeding the soul on a Sunday morning. In addition to the poetry of the scriptures and the often elevating liturgy, I believe that these two remaining components of organized religion will ensure its continued survival for many more centuries to come.]]> 1245 2009-09-06 19:21:02 2009-09-06 19:21:02 open open church-sunday publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1252471150 228 kiibaati@gmail.com 196.1.177.140 2009-09-08 23:30:31 2009-09-08 23:30:31 1 0 0 226 rayosword@gmail.com http://www.all4words.blogspot.com 41.184.49.132 2009-09-07 09:23:40 2009-09-07 09:23:40 1 0 9651688 060920091200 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/church-sunday/attachment/060920091200/ Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:40:00 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/060920091200.jpg 1262 2009-09-06 19:40:00 2009-09-06 19:40:00 open open 060920091200 inherit 1245 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/060920091200.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/060920091200.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1024";s:6:"height";s:3:"768";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:87:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/060920091200.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"3.2";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:5:"N70-1";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1252230835";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"4.5";s:3:"iso";s:3:"125";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:8:"0.059213";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} six flags http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/my-labour-weekend/six-flags/ Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:44:14 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/six-flags.jpg 1275 2009-09-07 02:44:14 2009-09-07 02:44:14 open open six-flags inherit 1271 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/six-flags.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/six-flags.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:3:"604";s:6:"height";s:3:"340";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='72' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:84:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/six-flags.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"0";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:1:"0";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:1:"0";s:3:"iso";s:1:"0";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:1:"0";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} My Labour Day Weekend http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/my-labour-weekend/ Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:17:35 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=1271 Today Monday will mark the end of a long Labour Day weekend in the United States. Labour Day is celebrated here in the United States on the first Monday in September. It is a holiday for all workers in the country, and all public (and many, if not all private) institutions in the United States go on a holiday. In Nigeria and in Europe, the holiday is celebrated on May 1st. According to Wikipedia, "the day has older significance in Europe as a rural festival which is predominantly more important than that of the Labour Day movement. The holiday has become internationalised and several countries hold multi-day celebrations including parades, shows and other patriotic and labour-oriented events." So on Sunday, I went to Church, and it turned out to be quite a pleasant experience, just like I expected from an Episcopal denomination. No anointing oils. No forced offerings or public exorcism of a possessed soul. And after the service there was a fellowship that made any visitor feel absolutely at home. It was a congregation with very warm people who wanted to talk, wanted to know more about the new visitors. There was no snobbery. It looked just like a worship session of believers should be. I met Holly R., an artist/painter who, like many others, offered a sight-seeing tour of St. Louis whenever we wanted it. Afterwards, we went to KOHL's for some shopping with Rudy Wilson who had invited us (myself and Mafoya, a Beninoise sophomore of Management at SIUE, and a co-occupant of House 431, Cougar Village) to the Sunday service. KOHL's is a big departmental store where everything seemed to be on sale: 50% off, 20% off, 70% off etc. I mean, why do they mark up these products in the first place and then sell them cheap later on? In case you are wondering what the traveller get at the store? Think thick apparels, game shoes and a few other winter-fighting equipments. 060920091211Then there was another interesting part of my weekend that took place on Saturday. It was a meeting of the International Students Society here on campus. It was a wonder to find out just how large the Indian students population is, here on campus. The meeting was to  plan the events of the coming Annual International Night at SIUE which has become famous all around the town of Edwardsville over the years. The attractions of the International Night include international cuisines, dance and fashion from all around the world, prepared by the international students. Here's something to look forward to. To break the ice as soon as the meeting started, the president of the ISS had asked each of us to introduce ourselves by telling who we were, as well as three interesting facts about ourselves out of which one must be a lie. The other members would then guess which is the lie, until everyone has had their turn. I was first, and here were the facts as I gave them then: Fact #1. I am not the tallest in my family. Fact#2. My country won the last All-African football tournament. Fact#3. I can speak/understand up to four languages. It should have been misleading, or at least confusing, right? But no. The response was unanimous, and as far from Nigeria we've always assumed America to be in terms of information especially about sports, everyone picked out #2 as the lie, and I was shocked. How did they know? Well, I agree there were many Indians there, and many other students from different nationalities. But still! Now today, after following the result of the football match between Nigeria and Tunisia towards their quests to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and learning of Nigeria's dismal performance through Twitter and Facebook, I am no longer in doubt of the infamy of our football reputation, or its global reach. And yes, I'm not the tallest in my family. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.]]> 1271 2009-09-07 03:17:35 2009-09-07 03:17:35 open open my-labour-weekend publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1252326492 _edit_last 2145678 060920091211 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/my-labour-weekend/attachment/060920091211/ Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:28:24 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/060920091211.jpg 1280 2009-09-07 03:28:24 2009-09-07 03:28:24 open open 060920091211 inherit 1271 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/060920091211.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/060920091211.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1024";s:6:"height";s:3:"768";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:87:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/060920091211.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"3.2";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:5:"N70-1";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1252234535";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"4.5";s:3:"iso";s:2:"64";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:7:"0.00039";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Rudy's Books http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/connecting-with-a-certain-past/cimg0514/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:34:30 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/cimg0514.jpg 1293 2009-09-08 01:34:30 2009-09-08 01:34:30 open open cimg0514 inherit 1291 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/cimg0514.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/cimg0514.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/cimg0514.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:6:"EX-Z29";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1252351786";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"200";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:16:"0.16666666666667";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Stefan M. Bradley, Rudy Wilson and a few other guests http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/connecting-with-a-certain-past/cimg0522/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:50:04 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/cimg0522.jpg 1294 2009-09-08 01:50:04 2009-09-08 01:50:04 open open cimg0522 inherit 1291 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/cimg0522.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/cimg0522.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/cimg0522.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:6:"EX-Z29";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1252353250";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"100";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:8:"0.003125";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} CIMG0522 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/connecting-with-a-certain-past/cimg0522-2/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:02:24 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/cimg05221.jpg 1296 2009-09-08 02:02:24 2009-09-08 02:02:24 open open cimg0522-2 inherit 1291 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/cimg05221.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/cimg05221.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:84:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/cimg05221.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:3:"2.8";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:6:"EX-Z29";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:10:"1252353250";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:3:"6.2";s:3:"iso";s:3:"100";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:8:"0.003125";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Connecting With A Certain Past (1) http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/connecting-with-a-certain-past/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:03:51 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=1291 Monday, being a holiday, was another opportunity for me to reconnect with the town, so I chose to go visiting Rudy Wilson, a retired African-American professor at SIUE who once again offered to host us at his beautiful home with his friends and family. Amidst food, drinks and plenty discussions about Race and its influence on/relavance to Africa, we spent a work-free day in a certain bliss and plenty talking. The topics we touched included very many issues both trivial and serious, be it the love of Cadillacs, the mapping of Africa, or the food and women of America to how we Africans have so far found the American beauties either in love and friendship. A topical issue that soon drew a longer discussion and participation is one of particular relevance to the many of us at the table. It had to do with why there is as yet no major and detailed academic curriculum in Nigerian schools (from primary to University) about Transatlantic Slavery, its evils, and the roles of 15th and 16th century Africans in sending their fellow countrymen and women into the white man's boat. CIMG0522My guess by the way of opinion is that the people in power today in West Africa could only have descended from the slave raiders and slave masters of those times. This is the only explanation I could give to explain why a people so brutally decimated have not retained a strong enough interest in passing down the story of that horrible crime. The prey never got a chance to speak, and so the story of the hunt has always favoured the hunter. I confess that all I know about slavery were not from any class textbooks but from many other secondary sources and my own independent research. Is it that slavery doesn't matter much as a subject of discussion and research to the people whose ancestors were so badly betrayed? If we couldn't have done anything about it then, could we also have failed to grasp the importance of finding out and documenting what truly happened then, tracking if possible the line of people whose ancestors were most involved in the crime? The answer to that, my friends, is still blowing in the wind.]]> 1291 2009-09-08 02:03:51 2009-09-08 02:03:51 open open connecting-with-a-certain-past publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2145678 _edit_lock 1252377453 Old footage, 2002: Here I was, reading a poem for Francis Egbokhare. I can't remember the last time I wore a tie now. http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/connecting-with-a-certain-past-2/mee/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:25:12 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/mee.jpg 1305 2009-09-08 02:25:12 2009-09-08 02:25:12 open open mee inherit 1302 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/mee.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/mee.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1192";s:6:"height";s:3:"805";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='86' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:78:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/mee.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"0";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:11:"HP pstc5200";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:1:"0";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:1:"0";s:3:"iso";s:1:"0";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:1:"0";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Old footage, 2002: A group photo of students with the new Professor. http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/connecting-with-a-certain-past-2/people/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:26:15 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/people.jpg 1306 2009-09-08 02:26:15 2009-09-08 02:26:15 open open people inherit 1302 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/people.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/people.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1206";s:6:"height";s:3:"795";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='84' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:81:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/people.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"0";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:11:"HP pstc5200";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:1:"0";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:1:"0";s:3:"iso";s:1:"0";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:1:"0";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Old footage, undated: A famous Nigerian poet, Remi Raji, in repose http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/connecting-with-a-certain-past-2/rr/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:27:01 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/rr.jpg 1307 2009-09-08 02:27:01 2009-09-08 02:27:01 open open rr inherit 1302 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/rr.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/rr.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1206";s:6:"height";s:3:"804";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='85' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:77:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/rr.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"0";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:11:"HP pstc5200";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:1:"0";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:1:"0";s:3:"iso";s:1:"0";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:1:"0";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Old footage, 2002: B Eluma, an old friend, now a graduate student at Cambridge http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/connecting-with-a-certain-past-2/beneluma/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:28:21 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/beneluma.jpg 1308 2009-09-08 02:28:21 2009-09-08 02:28:21 open open beneluma inherit 1302 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/beneluma.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/beneluma.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1206";s:6:"height";s:3:"777";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='82' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:83:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/beneluma.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"0";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:11:"HP pstc5200";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:1:"0";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:1:"0";s:3:"iso";s:1:"0";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:1:"0";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Old footage, 2002: Sola Olorunyomi, a brilliant Nigerian scholar, musician and Fela biographer http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/connecting-with-a-certain-past-2/sola-2/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:32:25 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/sola1.jpg 1310 2009-09-08 02:32:25 2009-09-08 02:32:25 open open sola-2 inherit 1302 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/sola1.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/sola1.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"1196";s:6:"height";s:3:"802";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='85' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:80:"/home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/sola1.jpg";s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";s:1:"0";s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:11:"HP pstc5200";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";s:1:"0";s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";s:1:"0";s:3:"iso";s:1:"0";s:13:"shutter_speed";s:1:"0";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Connecting With A Certain Past (2) http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/connecting-with-a-certain-past-2/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:37:52 +0000 http://ktravula.wordpress.com/?p=1302 Click on the images to enlarge [gallery link="file" columns="4" orderby="title"] ]]> 1302 2009-09-08 02:37:52 2009-09-08 02:37:52 open open connecting-with-a-certain-past-2 publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1252404050 _edit_last 2145678 The Traveller strokes the host's cat in the library. http://ktravula.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/connecting-with-a-certain-past-2/cimg0521/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:01:30 +0000 http://ktravula.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/cimg0521.jpg 1317 2009-09-08 03:01:30 2009-09-08 03:01:30 open open cimg0521 inherit 1302 0 attachment http://ktravula.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/cimg0521.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/wpcom/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/4d8/8955165/files/2009/09/cimg0521.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";s:4:"3648";s:6:"height";s:4:"2736";s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' 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I have found new pictures from my trip to Six Flags, St. Louis in my co-traveller Mafoya's camera. Since I already lost my own camera, I could only be pleased that at least some memory of that event remains. Looking through Reham's camera during the week, I also found a few ones she had taken of me all the way from Providence. Hmm, this is surely one weekend of memories. 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It was a good thing that I went with my hooded cardigan, for security, which turned out to be a good decision. Just a few hours after I started heading back home from my Wednesday teaching class, I felt that I was begining to freeze. There was no way this could be 24degrees. And this time, unlike the many other times, I found that I was the only person feeling so cold. My friend from my Linguistics class, Chris, was sweating as we both walked back to my apartment from school. Horror. I went to Yahoo Weather to check out the temperature. They said it's 26degrees. No way! I have now switched the house air conditioning which was left on by the flatmates off. I tried on my new fleece gloves and they fit. I got them from Amazon.com only a few days ago, and I have been careful not to leave them carelessly in the house lest my flatmates begin to take pity on me - the tropical traveller who wears winter gloves in September. In any case, my fingers in the gloves looked like that of a grizzly bear and I couldn't locate the keys on my keyboard, nor use the touchpad on my laptop. I've pulled them off just to type this post. They will be back on as soon as the adjusted American flatmates return to switch the Air Conditioning back on, and I will retreat into the duvet, behind two thick clothings and beneath a heat-generating laptop. God Bless Dell. PS: I have checked the weather websites again now, only to find that the weather forecasts I read in the morning described both highs and lows of the day. Darn. I must have noted only the high: 24/26 and ignored the low: 15/16. Next time, when I go out from now on, I'll have my fleece gloves in my bag pocket. Maybe I should order for one more pair!]]> 1355 2009-09-10 00:51:31 2009-09-10 00:51:31 open open the-traveller-is-freezing publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1252544019 _edit_last 2145678