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I’m calming down now after a Fanta and a couple of mandazi. But I just took Stege IV for a Unix lab: the one where they log in and enther their passwords and type ls and other exciting things. They took notes, they typed commands. They even answered some simple questions, all the signs that […]

Not sure how to put this into words as I don’t have the original words to hand.

I went to Machakos yesterday to spend the evening boozing and dancing with fellow VSOs. I arrived just after lunch time and hadn’t eaten so I headed to the popular (for its excelent Mandazi) T.Tot hotel for some lunch […]

Friday afternoon is “get out of the lab and go to the Market” day for our students. James gave the ladies an extra hour of browsing time then chased them away so he and I could try connecting two computers directly with a cross-over cable; something he has to teach on one of his courses. […]

The power was off all day yesterday. Here are some thoughts I jotted down in my notebook by candlelight last evening: -

The lights are flickering, trying to come back on, making it tricky to write this.

Today, on the radio, I heard an African woman saying: “Africa’s women would make better political leaders than its men”. […]

Today’s little bit of controvertial rhetoric is a book: The Road To Hell. (links here and here). I’ve not read it all yet, but enough so far for it to make an impression. And it’s not cheering me up much.
I sat at home this morning reading it and listening to the children at the primary […]

Fahrenheit 9/11 won the Palme D’Or
So, when it is finally released, who’s going to send me a DVD?

This morning my class wouldn’t answer my questions.
Any of them.
They just sat there. I waited.
After a short time I got up and took the chalk.
“If you dont’ want to talk”, I said, “neither do I.”
I wrote notes on the board for an hour and a half without even looking at them. Then I […]

As it was Christine’s birthday, we went to the Aberdares country club for a slap up meal

Nice pic of Shauna and me from the spectacular drive back. The mist you can see in the pics from Saturday had cleared away and there were wonderful views.

I just added the rest of the photos to yesterday’s entry.
Today I received a message during my class that I had a visitor in the staff room. A gengleman who teaches philosophy at the Catholic University in Nairobi had come to greet me. He is a friend of the man I met on a Matatu […]

Reporting back from another exciting weekend away camping with Christine and Shauna…

I saw my first African Elephants, this family was crossing the road just behind us.
Maybe a camera without optical zoom wasn’t the best choice for the Land of Big Game, but they’re my memories…?
This time with Shauna’s big new 4WD truck.

We’re watched by […]