Apolygamous?

I am still quite pleased with my placement. Things are going well in Arusha, despite a slight cold that I got from my roommate. I don't have much time, but here is an interesting story.

The class debate that we had on Friday was written on the board as, "Apolygamous is better than amonogamous". This is how our debate about polygamy and monogamy began. I secretly erased the unnecessary "a" when no one was looking only to have it rewritten as, "Polygamy life is better than monogamy life" - I guess this is at least a small success in that these are real words. The students suggest the daily topic and debate it to further their usage of English. So people will frequently take stances that they disagree with just to amuse themselves and controversial topics are taken to get a rise out of people so that there will be more argument. Masha, the head teacher, likes to play devil's advocate. When arguing in support of polygamy his logic was as follows: "There are more women in the world and they all want to be married. If we do not allow men to take more than one wife there will be many single women and this will result in widespread lesbianism which is a great sin." The end of this argument resulted in him asking me to write "lesbian", "gay", "homosexual", and "homophobic" on the board. He asked me to explain homophobia then he said, "homophobic, that is good". I said, "uh...well, that is one way to look at it..."

I have discovered more and more that the best way to get by in Africa is just to accept things as they come and not to argue at all because it is absolutely futile.
Later I will tell you about religion in Africa. This is really a very very different beast... By the way, Masha is Pentecostal.