Survivor

Posted Monday, June 9, 2008, at 12:44 PM

A picture Jer took on his last trip to Gabon, last summer.

Okay, I'll admit I've never seen the show, but of late my house has been very interested in the new season. Why? Because it's being filmed in the country that is my husband's specialty - Gabon. We're pretty excited that it will be bringing money to the area there, as well as seeing how they will present the country. It's a poor country, but it's also one of the richest in Africa. Anyway, they're still holding casting for it there's some in Alabama. I told Jer he should try out, but he doesn't think they would let a specialist on the country be on that season of Survivor - besides he thinks he would be one of the first people voted off.

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Mike, that's pretty funny - it reminded me that I once applied to be on the Real World (the year they were in Miami).

-- Posted by cfrich on Wed, Jun 11, 2008, at 11:18 AM

I sent in an audition tape for Survivor a few years ago when they were in Australia. I've always wanted to go there and figured it was my best shot. I guess the tape wasn't very good though..

-- Posted by Mike Molder on Wed, Jun 11, 2008, at 8:23 AM

It might be funnier if you knew my mom - when I told her about that dream, she said she always thought Chevy was a handsome man.

-- Posted by cfrich on Mon, Jun 9, 2008, at 10:25 PM

For example, I had a dream whilst there that my mom was dating Chevy Chase and that he lived in a college dorm room).

Hahaha, that is hilarious! That will be forever etched into my brain.

-- Posted by Evil Monkey on Mon, Jun 9, 2008, at 2:37 PM

Yeah, I'm not a good spokesperson to get people to visit Gabon, but it was pretty. The funny thing about the flu is that Jer and the people he was staying with all thought that I had gotten malaria - which is the only reason I went to a doctor while I was there. (You have to take anti-malaria meds while there - they give you vivid dreams. For example, I had a dream whilst there that my mom was dating Chevy Chase and that he lived in a college dorm room).

-- Posted by cfrich on Mon, Jun 9, 2008, at 2:23 PM

Coup, the flu, and hot temperatures . . . if you were a salesman, you definitely would have lost the sale with me. LOL!

-- Posted by jaxspike on Mon, Jun 9, 2008, at 2:06 PM

Gabon is a really pretty country. I went in 99/2000, and I thought it was hotter than anything I had ever experienced and I got the flu (weird, right?), but it was really beautiful with the most pristine beaches I'd ever seen.

I also have been to Senegal, which was amazing. I'm dying to go back.

Until I went over to Gabon and Senegal, I never really had a desire to go to Africa - except for wanting to go to Morocco (but that comes from reading too many Beat novels). Now, I'd like to see more of the continent, since the experience I had when I was over there was so challenging (long story, but the short of it is that I got caught in a coup for a week).

-- Posted by cfrich on Mon, Jun 9, 2008, at 1:20 PM

I will apply . . . and then beg to be voted off the first day I am there.

Send me to Australia or New Zealand but I have no desire whatsoever to visit any country in Africa.

-- Posted by jaxspike on Mon, Jun 9, 2008, at 1:08 PM

Oh you mean because he's a Gabon expert? He's so passionate about his work, I doubt he could tone it down even if he wanted to.

-- Posted by cfrich on Mon, Jun 9, 2008, at 12:54 PM

"Don't ask,don't tell" might apply.

-- Posted by quantumcat on Mon, Jun 9, 2008, at 12:52 PM