love you lots …

ps your beans and maize dish sounds like our rice and lentils dish - "khitchuri"

Hey, it’s dead busy on this blog isn’t it? I was thinking I’d only have to check it once a week. Doesn’t anyone here have any work to do?!

Am I right in thinking that you’re supposed to survive on your VSO allowance or something?

According to xe.com, 100 KES is 70p at the moment.

I liked the image of you copying down TXTs by hand… reminds me of when I used to have to do that with BASIC programs cos I didn’t have a printer for my VIC-20.

I think you should set yourself the challenge of INVENTING a TXT-printer using iodine and greaseproof-paper or something… must be plenty of inventions produced by people with limited resources!!!

Love, Chris

I fully support Chris’ suggestion that you create your own printer. Think of yourself as the IT McGyver (without the explosions or cheesy plotlines).

Also, thanks to Chris for finally providing some concept about the relationship between the KES and currency with which I am familiar. Though I assumed that the prices you provided were irrationally inexpensive, without some sense of proportion I was at something of a loss. It felt a bit like walking into an alien world in which the punchline of every joke was incomprehensible to me:

"So I said, 5 peesacks for a snardblick? You must be crazy!" Or, "Who do you think you are, Beljar Froyo?"

You get the idea.

In short, you’re lucky to have this Chris person, because without him or her, you’d be neither funny nor McGyver.

Love,
Katie

When I bought my shillings, there were about 139 of them to one GBP. Now, I understand, there are about 144 of them to one GBP.

Mzungu means "Foreigner" but is rarely used perjoratively.

love you all.
Mark

Anyway it’s great hearing what you’ve been upto. Your blog was pretty quite for some time and when I connected today I was surprised how many more messages there were.

TTFN Raj.