oh the difficulties of Africa:)

Well, I thought with this blog spot we'd get to post more often. Just to give you a taste of African living (which I must admit has a lot of great parts...like coke from glass bottles, and never having to worry about being on time!). To post this short blog, we tried for several days to get online at language school...to no avail. So we loaded up and drove to the Oasis...the nice hotel that offers wireless internet. Upon arrival, we learned, that their internet was not working. We drove to another hotel, where they assured us that we can get online with wireless. They walked us around to the back and showed us the computer. It's hot in the room and there are kids in their late teens playing shoot em up video games. It doesn't smell nice. We decide that we'd try somewhere else. Wireless would allow us to skype with a coworker and we really need to do that. We drove through town. As we're approaching the round about (called Keepe Lefte here) a we have to stop to wait for our turn. When we do that, a car cuts us off and we remember that African road rules are very different. You don't wait your turn, you edge out and take a risk. Luckily, we were able to do that without hiccup and we landed in a nice airconditioned internet cafe buty with no wireless. We take a moment to do facebook and gmail, never quite clearning the inbox. And here I am...sitting in a cubicle! Not too bad. It's a successful day! (I hope it's clear, I'm really not complaining or offereing excuses. These types of things are to be expected in a developing country. Just filling you in.)