Ng'ombe!

I am meeting with Daniel Radcliff, Director of IVHQ, on Monday at 2:30. He has insinuated that there may be a job for me. We will see what happens. I want him to pay for me to travel.

Deborah left today for England, so it is back to living alone. I quell this lonelyness by spending far too much money on the internet. I really really need to find a way to get the presidential debates in downloadable form. Please let me know if you know where I can get this. I have about 3 gigs of space on my memory stick and I want put the debates on that and then watch them on my OLPC at home.

School is going well, I am working on beating tenses into them so they stop saying things like, "I am go to work" and "I going to school". I need to find some posterboard to make charts in the classroom because we only have one blackboard per class and they are small. Really, I am going to teach them this if it kills me. Dave's mom has sent us books that will arrive sometime in mid October so I am looking forward to that.

My students frequently bring a "photographer" in off the streets to take pictures with me to show their friends. Bibi (grandma) apparently is amazed by the Mzungu (white people) that she is living with. She was shocked to know that we eat the same things that she eats and that we will actually take our dishes into the kitchen when done eating. My Swahili has gotten much better. I am capable of actual conversations. For instance, "Me sheba koma ng'ombe" means "I am full like a cow".

The great thing about having your hair in braids is that you don't have to wash your hair really ever. This might just be a great thing about Africa though.

I do miss home and I covet political involvement. If this job falls through, I might be back in time for the election and in that case I will probably drop stuff off somewhere in NYC and then head to the nearest swing state. I have a sense of political obligation, but if this job looks promising I may have to take it because payment for travel is a great incentive....