Monthly Archives: January 2007

Nothing much to report today

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 30, 2007
I spent three hours today trying to get these blog entries posted, with sporadic interruptions for power outages and sundry disasters.  I did make it to the goldsmith, who is making me a pair of silver spindles – one with adinkra designs in gold on the top of the whorl, and one with silver filigree [...]
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Finally got to an Internet cafe…

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 30, 2007
Finally got to sit down at an internet cafe, and while they don’t have new enough computers to take a thumb drive, and can’t set me up with an Ethernet connection, there’s nothing to stop me from reading the laptop screen and retyping my blog entries into their computers.  So that’s exactly what I’m doing.  [...]
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A long night

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 29, 2007
Last night probably qualifies as one of the worst nights I’ve spent. When backpacking, especially in poor countries, one has to accept that once in awhile, you’re going to be stuck in a rathole. It happened to me in Vietnam, when I spent an evening in a windowless concrete cubicle where it must [...]
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A quiet day

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 28, 2007
Well-known fact: roosters crow at dawn. Slightly less well-known fact: roosters also crow at 1am, 2am, 3am, and whenever they feel like it. Well, I did get some sleep. I suppose I should confess at this point that Our Intrepid Heroine usually spends the first day in a foreign country holed up in the hotel like a scared [...]
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Hello from Ghana!

By Tien Chiu | Published: January 27, 2007
I arrived here a few hours ago, on British Airways Flight 81, after an uneventful 22-hour trip.  At the airport, I was met by a slender young man named Eddie, who bargained with the taxi driver who had instantly attached himself to me and got me from the airport for a mere $10.  (Normally it [...]
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