Turkey Sandwiches!!!

I've been in North Africa for almost 11 months now and I think that I've learned quite a bit about myself since I first got here. One big thing I've learned is that I really like sandwiches. I guess I've never really been in an extended situation where sandwiches weren't really an available option so I would have never guessed that the one thing that I would miss the most, the one craving that never ceases to throw me into culture shock, would be turkey sandwiches....Until today. That's right, we now have a store that actually sells sandwich meat. They have a little machine that slices it and you can choose from turkey, chicken or some other really wierd things that you would only find in this part of the world. It's a little pricey (about $15 a lb) but if you only buy 1/4 pound at a time it doesn't seem so expensive. Plus, as a wise friend once told me, an expensive sandwich (or really an expensive anything, just fill in the blank) is much cheaper than a plane ticket home.

The other day I was riding down the street, the same street I drive down every day, only this day there was a huge, billboard sized TV. I never saw anyone building it, it just appeared. I couldn't believe it. In this huge deserted field now stands a gigantic TV that doesn't just play standstill ads, it actually plays moving commercials in the middle of this huge intersection!! Exactly what we need, as if there aren't enough wrecks already! There are beggars everywhere on this intersection and it's really an ironic picture, the poorest of the poor living under this giant TV. It is turned off on Fridays and then at other random times during the week but we have a theory on that. We think that it's not exactly an automatic thing. See, there's this door on the back of it and a ladder leading up to the door. You would think that the ladder would have come down eventually but it hasn't. So our theory is that there's an old guy who sits up there and is responsible for pushing the play button when the DVD is over. He gets Friday off and the random other times are his bathroom breaks. I would like to climb up there and really scope it out but I just have a feeling that I wouldn't be able to do that without being noticed, I mean, a white girl climbing up the tallest billboard in town, kind of an attention grabber. So turkey sandwiches and billboard TVs. K-town is really moving up in the world!