Monday, March 3, 2008

The night watchman

There are so many wonderful people here. One of them is the night watchman who is a wonderful character. He greets me with great enthusiasm every time he sees me with the only English phrase he knows: "HowareyouIamfine." His name is George and he has a full camo outfit that he wears every night. It is long pants, a long sleeved jacket and a hat. All camo. Now, he is a dark black African in the desert. He stands out wearing green camo. On top of that he carries a large ring of keys that jingle quite a bit. He carries a gun too. But the first time that I saw him pump it and realized that it was an airsoft gun I couldn't decide if I was more reassured or less. The good news is this place is very safe and I'm pretty sure the only thing that the gun has killed is pigeons (of which there are still 200+. He could kill a few more).

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