Happy 36th Birthday Djibouti!

I was talking with a couple male Djiboutian colleagues in the gym the other day. They are both young-ish, one married, one single, pretty religious, and really nice guys. We were talking about music because the one guy brought in a zip drive and we were listening and watching his downloaded videos of the Back Street Boys on the TV. We spoke about illegal bootlegging and how easy it is to find here. We talked about streaming video and what the government of Djibouti blocks (not much really!) and we talked about private sector competition and how it ends up providing better service to the customer. Pretty heavy topics while on the treadmill. I was spouting off about the telecom industry here and how its pretty much a complete rip-off, which it is. They both agreed, but then one of them reminded me that Djibouti is only 36 years old and America will turn 237 years in a few days. He was very proud of his countries independance and how far it had come in only 36 years and seemed confident that in anouther 200 or so years, Djibouti would have seen the rise of unlimited streaming video!

Happy Birthday Djibouti!

Djibouti Flags lining the street I live on!