Im at the internet cafe because the power was out for awhile and when it came back on the world wide web wasnt working! I tried connecting a bunch of times just because i cant get enough of that melodious dial-up sound but I was denied and so here I am. A boarding school girl at my side of course.

The week went really fast and I think this is the first time in my life Ive looked forward to the weekdays and not so much the weekends. On the weekends I dont have much to do so I end up doing a fair amount of lurking...around the house...in the yard... you know just being a lurker.

I had my first english class that actually went well. It was the most basic english to the first year patisserie students and it went a lot better than the other 'more advanced' class. The first year students are more on the same level whereas the second year is just kind of a disaster. One kid doesnt read or write, another is 26 years old and I cant imagine what she thinks when I ask her to repeat 'january' 17 times. Then theres the girl who didnt know how to say '4' in english sitting next to the kid who seems to be good in english and is probably bored. The classes for the patisserie students are nice in that theyre at the technical school in a real classroom with walls as opposed to the gazebo things where I meet with the boarding school girls. Theres usually someone playing soccer or something right next to it.

Only slightly less disastrous than second year patisserie is the older boarding school girls. This one girl has had english for 5 years now and didnt know what 'almost' meant. I dont want to say its a lost cause but its a lost cause. That said some of them seem really interested and smart and I enjoy teaching english to them. Before coming here this girl who Ive talked to multiple times asked me to help her with her homework and we were doing it and then all of a sudden said 'anne you are so pretty.' it was strange so I was like 'oh. uh. thanks' and then shes like 'your purse is really pretty you should give it to me'. ohhhhh ok I get it. I told her shed have to wait until april.

This other girl asked me if I had a friend for her or something like that. As usual I only kind of knew what was going on and I was like 'ohh to write to?' so I dont know what shes looking for... pen pal? pen pal with benefits? Its hard to say.

Not too much new at the dispensary. The guy that sr vicky thought had aids came back on wednesday with a sealed envelope from the hospital and she opened it and he was HIV positive. It wasnt clear how much he knew since she kind of opened it in her lap and then put the letter back in the envelope. Then told him to go to the hospital to get the drugs for the 'sickness of the blood' and told him how important it was to eat and to not miss a dose and stuff like that but Im not sure he knew what he had. His friend was with him again- he only has one leg! What a duo.

Then on friday we had to go to the bigger town to buy medecine because everyone and their mom who came to the dispensary this week had a cough.

This post just got deleted and was then rediscovered so im going to go before microsoft encounters another problem
bye!