parlez-vous anglais?

Petrov is writing tonight from Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Unlike Dakar, Abidjan is a "modern" city. The city looks very beautiful, with the exception of the fact that it looks like all care for the city was abandoned about 10 years ago, which makes sense given its history. Suprisingly (to petrov) it is a much cleaner and developed city than Dakar. Dakar was like a gigantic construction site and trashpit all rolled into one. Roads are being built left and right in Dakar, but construction crews for such roads were not witnessed.

After 4 days of listening to french... petrov is sick of it. spanish is good, french is not. the language as spoken has absolutely nothing to do with how the words are written. petrov is unable to decipher anywords from the context of conversation, plus they are shifty with the keyboards moving keys all around. ugh. petrov had a song to give you, but his ipod is locked away in the hotel room safe, so recalling what the song was will have to be left for another day.