Ahhh... You know when you have one of those those amazing meals, the kind that has you salivating for days to come, thinking about the moment when you can finally eat your leftovers or the next time you can go back? I had one of those last night. A few of the other interns and I, fresh from a long day of dive training, finally got around to trying Cafe Ganesh, which is a little hole-in-the-wall place right down the street in Obz that I'd honestly completely ov...

Ugh, I'm in a sour mood. Just spent all morning and part of the afternoon trying to upload some really cool photos and download Skype and pretty much failed at both. The internet here is so touchy, and now I've wasted a lot of money and MBs only to get a failed connection at the 90% mark for both my Facebook photo upload and my Skype download. Really frustrating... And I'm not sure what to do with the rest of the afternoon... Stuff closes awfully early a...

Well, another few long days -- but a good ones! Found a couple fabulous restaurants, heard about a tentative start date for my internship at Stillking, and went a handful of awesome places! First, Sean told me that I'd have first meeting at the production company on Wednesday, giving me a few extra days to explore; apparently, the film industry here shuts down all inter and restarts in October, so I'm here at a "good time." As the internship goes,...

It's funny -- things are the same, but different. Children's TV is a good example: There's Takalani Sesame, where everything is so the same that you don't realize it's in another language for at least a minute (and which language it is is a bit of a mystery for me too -- it's simultaneously broadcast in four different ones, none of them English). All the characters, Elmo included, sound exactly the same, but Cookie Monster (presumably) lacks his traditional goo...