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I can't escape
I am in East Africa. Sitting out under some palm trees, working, drinking crappy wine and have just finished watching the sun set dramatically over the Indian Ocean. Oh, and all the tables around me are full of nuns. No joke. Soon my crappy African interpretation of British "cuisine" will arrive and I will devour it because nothing makes me hungry like severe exhaustion and jet lag.
Someone in the hotel bar just turned on some American cable news channel over satellite with talking heads bantering about the election. LOUD. My peace has been ruined...
Seriously though, the local staff in our office here are nearly as obsessed (and in some cases probably more informed) with this election than most Americans. It always stuns me how much the rest of the world follows and is intellectually engaged with our politics.
Re: I can't escape
First and foremost, I am jealous you get to travel for work. Your description of your view sounds amazing right about now.
Second, I am not surprised people around the globe are nearly as obsessed as Americans with this election. My guess is that people expect change no matter who wins, but the toss up is what kind of "change" it will be.
You're probably not jealous of my NGO salary
. We've got to get perks somewhere, when we could easily bolt for the defense contracting industry and double or triple our salaries.
It's humbling that our election is so important that my driver, who has less than an 8th grade education, and speaks english as his 4th languge can speak with more intelligence and knowledge than many Americans about the electoral college, and specific policy positions of the two campaigns.
thats a totally awesome image! I thought you were describing a dream - esp when the nuns were mentioned, lol.
My sis was in Spain in early Sept and told me how their papers were obsessed with Bristol and her baby. crazay.
Hey I get paid diddly sh!t and I don't get sent to view the ocean and eat crappy fake british cuisine! I need a new job.
I'm sorry your peace was ruined. Have fun though!
Come to the dark side!! Tax dollars are so much sweeter when they send you to visit tropical locales and hang out with imans, orphans and rap stars
Though, to be honest, this trip has been funded by the generous taxpayers of Norway...
Epilogue:
My hotel has one kind of patron: the slightly paunchy, graying, stooped male business traveler from some place with a lot of white people. The nuns were apparently only here for dinner.
Therefore it goes without saying that my hotel is overrun with prostitutes who are at least 5 younger than me.
I kind of feel like running amok in the open air lobby and bar and sprinkling my collection of "from the American people"-branded condoms all about.
Okay, your trip sounds both hilarious and awesome.
The election has been such a circus so far, I can imagine it's even more circus-y and interesting from an outsider's perspective.
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Me too. It sounds amazing, getting to talk to travel to places like that and talk to people in all these different cultures. I would love to be hearing what people abroad are talking about with this election right now. I miss traveling SO much!! ?