Day 35 (friday)

Just my brunch...so tasty and pretty healthy too!

Some interesting "knock offs" I saw at the store.

Woke up a couple times in the night but finally got up around 7 (seems kind of late) to fix some breakfast. Coffee and cerevita and I felt like a champ. Maureen was up marking the rest of her papers and then prepared a nice little breakfast plate with a salad and some bread, very tasty. I spoke with Lisa this morning to ask whether I could accompany her for a day in Bekwai to visit and offer some assistance to the places I visited last week. She happened to be not going in today and was buying some materials for the students so we agreed that I would join her next week. I listened to more of the book and just sort of relaxed, wrote a bit and was preparing to go to town in the afternoon. We left for town to take Maureen's phone in to get fixed (the screen is broken) and she's been putting it off for a couple weeks now. When we got there she was informed that she needed to charge her phone before the guy would work on it (why he couldn't do it is still beyond me) so she would need to bring it back another time. Afterwards we visited the place where I originally bought my modem so I could learn how to “bundle” with their service (turns out that you can only do that in 15 and 30 cedi increments). They tried to get me to buy the 45 cedi package (good for one month so long as you're not downloading anything, he says) and I told him that i've been here for just over 30 days and i've spent 80+ cedis and have only had just under 2 weeks of service. I've had them recharge it and still don't have service and i've added some...they couldn't explain anything to me (I also later found out from an off duty employee that their internet service is actually not the best...glad I know that now) other than buying the 45 cedi package and bundling it (Maureen was with me to make sure I was understanding everything) and telling me that I had paid too much (no s*&$). We walked around some shops and ran into some familiar people/vendors from before. Nothing was really jumping out at me so we moved along. We walked around town for a bit and Maureen insisted on showing me another store that I hadn't seen, I obliged, and it was like a new D.I. and an old sears meshed together. I also wanted to point out some slight differences in brands, for example, they are MAN trucks not MACK trucks and it is Sammy the Sailor and not Cap'n Crunch...just thought it was kind of funny.  We grabbed a couple food items and began the journey back through town and trying to find a tro tro back to one junction and then to ted junction. We stopped and grabbed some of the ground nut candy from before and then headed home. We grabbed some red plantanes just before home and then got in. I was pretty exhausted so I laid down and listened to my book for a bit. Maureen took a much needed rest while I watched the Poland v Greece football match. Jellof rice tonight and tomato stew was a nice end to the day. I sat and listened to the rest of my audio from last week and took some notes and will refine the rest this weekend. Maureen insisted that she light some mosquito papers for my room (my legs are riddled with little red bumps, in fact, i'm trying to figure out what I could make out of connect the dots with the mosquito bites) and it was a bit overwhelming and kind of gave me a headache. She came back a few minutes later and turned off my fan and said that the smoke was really pretty bad and then said that she hadn't tried it before and probably wouldn't try it again (I was an experiment today).