Lions For Lambs

I've realized being an American here definitely has it's major advantages. No one thinks you speak French so you can basically choose to ignore or acknowledge anyone you want to. When someone tries to sell me something, I have no idea what French is. But when people are talking about me, all the sudden I bust it out. I love when I am in the taxi and no one else will speak to me because they think I won't understand, and then an AIESECer will call me and I'll speak French with them and everyone in the taxi turns and stares at me in disbelief. It's kind of awesome.

On a sadder note, my boss really took it up a notch on the tool scale today. We went again to Yopougon to play with the children and talk about HIV/AIDS and he wore jeans, a super tight t-shirt, and about ten pounds of bling around his neck. He also wore these James Bond sunglasses and tried to walk all gangster the whole day. What is this man doing? He runs an NGO who’s tagline is “The child is the future” and he acts like a teenager. He is also surrounded by luxuries and materialization. He has three office buildings for the NGO but each has an especially large office inside it for him, including fridges filled with bottled water and food, and a staff full of people ready to wait on him hand and foot. When he goes to Danane he takes his sports car. His SPORTS CAR. To Danane, where he is supposed to be counseling and helping people who are dying from HIV/AIDS!! And some of my coworkers told me while he is in Danane he sits in his air conditioned office and "does paperwork" all day and doesn't come outside in the heat. When we went to Yopougon he was 4 hours late and then stayed for 30 minutes and then made me come with him to the dry cleaners to get his suit.
How can someone running such a powerful NGO be like that? It really reminds me of Lions for Lambs. If you haven't seen that movie you are really missing out. If you have seen it, he is the biggest lamb I've ever seen, running an NGO full of lions. I actually have been seeing this trend many places, lions being led by lambs. When will the lions take the reigns? Why does it always end up that the lamb is in charge? Does it take a lamb to lead because we need all the lions to do the dirty work?