What started as an awareness raising and ethnographic styled walk through Sierra Leone, this site now details the encounters of a not so academic academic who spends more time occupying Wall Street and squats than a university...
Dan?!?! My REI superman... was mistaken when he told me that my cookware was titanium, its aluminum. I am not sure if you know that aluminum is actually not that great to cook on. Some of the metal leaches into your food, which is of course not good. So I may have to look at this again. I also went out running last night with my headlamp and it didn't get the job done. I got a light weight one from Petzl and the strap doesn't seem to be working well, not very secure. I tried another one on while I was there and it seemed more stable, so I will probably exchange it. The way the light worked wasn't really ideal either, so we will see how another one works out. All told, I will be exchanging much of what I bought, the steripen, the headlamp, perhaps the the cookware (beggars may not always choose...), and even the camelbak bladder I bought doesn't have a valve to shut off the water (which I've already had an issue with on my other one). The beauty of REI though is that they have the 100% satisfaction guarantee. Meaning I can just go in and exchange them. Fabulous store.
My finances are back to possibly being perilous as well, so I need to be careful about everything. I had been told I would be getting unemployment, however, that may not be the case now. Back to square one...
On a side note, I wanted to say that it had been a bit since I checked in on Crisis Watch (pdf), which is a great piece of information put out by Crisis Group. And there it was - no Sierra Leone! This group and publication specifically tracks crisis and war across the globe, and it has no mention of Sierra Leone at all. In other words, its not in danger of a crisis!!
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