Baadaye (“See you later”)

It seems I stumbled upon another version of the “Can we have our cake and eat it too” discussion, which will hardly be put to bed in one blog entry. However, it is reassuring to me that my female colleagues in Tanzania are having this same debate as my dear friends and I often have in the US.

Hello world!

It being Memorial Day weekend, the Omni was home to both glamorous weddings and Harley Davidson riders in town for Rolling Thunder 2009. You can only imagine the company and conversation I enjoyed in the elevators. By Monday, as the last of the wedding parties swept out the front doors and the handsome Harleys I’d been admiring from the balcony in my room peeled out in the pouring rain, the hotel started to come to life with signs of what was to come in the next few days. At first, it was a TV by the elevators, then a token conference sign, but by Monday night, I returned from dinner to find a hotel lobby buzzing from chatter in many languages and alive…