Who’s got the Power?

Today was interesting. We got to work and the power was out. This, in and of itself is not unusual, but once we had decided to go to the main part of town we found out from a shop owner that the power would be down until five. Nice of the electric company to only interfere with our work and not our lives after work hours. We ended up walking around downtown for a while in an effort to schedule a safari. I posted a few days ago about Type A personalities. This should prove the point. It took us two and a half hours to get four quotes from 4 agencies on what it would cost to do a very commonly configured safari. In most developed countries this would have taken 10 minutes on a web site. Its not that we had to walk between offices – they were all within one block of each other. The problem was that only one of the travel offices had any prices written down or standardized in any way. We got a lot of good information and should book our safari for much less than we would have expected when arriving in the country.

We used the remainder of our time to poke around a few shops and then go to old town. I’m sure you will see pictures on one of our blogs (Like Blair and Sam's or Grace's), but old town basically looks like the illegitimate child of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, and the Suburban rocket launcher scene in Clear and Present Danger. Look at these as an example:




And this one is especially Disneyland looking:



It’s meant to be one of the must see places in town but it was a bit of let down. It didn’t feel dangerous, as much as it just felt not safe(that’s not a typo).

Grace and I made a great Italian dinner for the other interns upon our arrival home. Fresh vegetables are very easy to buy and quite safe to eat and get incorporated into most meals and tonight’s was not exception. We walked a lot today so it was nice to get some carbs in my body. Meanwhile back at the farm, I turned on a feature so that I am required to moderate all comments left on the blog. I haven’t seen if this is working yet, so feel free to comment away and I’ll get them posted for you ASAP.


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Translation: Anything valuable left sitting long enough on the street gets stolen. This is where a manhole was replaced with a large rock to keep people from falling into it. Now only small children can fit. The ones that are actually in middle the street aren’t usually replaced at all.