More Japanese love -

Someone told me they're the ones paving my sidewalk.

On a vaguely related note, the Kigali municipality makes me laugh. There was a big conference which brought leaders from all over Africa to this humble city, an to decorate they put hundreds of little flower pots - the kind you put in your living room - along the airport road.

Also, it is not a rare occurrence to see women sweeping a main intersection - in the middle of traffic - with a homemade broom, and pushing the sand into a small, toy-sized dustpan, and walking it over to a house-sized garbage bin.

What's the expression. Drinking the ocean with a spoon? Sweeping the desert with a banana-leaf broom...