especially bad, since I wasn't able to go to her going away party. She
was a wonderful neighbor, but she has finished her two years and will
be back in the states soon. When I went to say bye, the first thing
that I did was cut my hand on her barbed wire fence. I made the classy
entrance of "Hi! Do you have any band-aids?" Well, good-bye is never
fun. She is leaving her puppy in Voi, so I will still visit her to
remind me of Tori.
The second week of tuition was rather uneventful. I was on hand in
case any of the teachers decided to bail at the last minute, but they
all conducted their lessons to one degree or another. I did another
chemistry lab, which went off completely without a hitch (well, one of
the chemicals had decomposed while in storage for some indeterminate
amount of time and didn't give the correct results, but the students
still managed to make the correct inference from what they saw), and I
was really proud of the students. I didn't have enough burners for the
students to tackle that lab, so I used another free lesson to teach
them a bit more about heating substances. I may have inhaled some
fumes that were not so healthy, so I was glad I didn't have any other
responsibilities during the week.
I was also robbed indirectly this week. One of the other teachers had
borrowed my camera and he was pickpocketed on the bus. And now I have
a better excuse for not posting more pictures. He was very honest with
me and felt really bad about the whole situation and even offered to
buy me another camera. I think we'll work something out where he buys
a camera for the school, since I'm actually feeling rather liberated
to live without a camera right now. There was another unfortunate
incident with my electronics and another teacher at my school, but I
still need to sort that one out.
My sunburn has mostly gone away, which is good since I think it
lowered my energy a bit this week. I put aloe on it the other day, and
that actually made it hurt much, much more. I still can't explain that
one.
I have another prospective charcoal client. Fortunately, this one is
within 40 miles of me, so I may be able to work on it a bit sooner.
I went to see Nick this weekend. His family had just visited for a
good chunk of the month, but sadly I missed meeting them. We swapped
lots of stories about our adventures in August while we looked at some
of the rock formations and water falls near his house. There were lots
of bugs (we were mostly concerned with the ones destroying crops and
the ants that started crawling in our clothes and biting us). We ate
some chicken sausages with ketchup and mustard, which were amazing
(make that really amazing) and split a box of wine. After that, we
just sat around writing exams for the start of the term. (Yikes! that
is just around the corner.)
Back at home, I am down to my last 20 liters of water and I'm not sure
when I'll be able to purchase more. (It's a really bad drought in the
area right now.) Fortunately, I grabbed a nice wasn bucket bath at
Nick's site (what a great host!), which was wonderful. For my water, I
decided that some of the laundry could not be put off, so I made sure
to push that water as far as I could. For dinner, I decided that I
could spare enough water to cook ramen noodles so long as I poured off
the excess water for use in washing dishes. I hope the rains come
soon. Fortunately, I have trained my body to rehydrate using only soda
(at least that is easier to buy). Let me assure you that this gift
only comes after years of training.
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