A Short Break (6/17/2006)

I have finally finished invigilating exams, marking exams, mullet fest and teaching. I am looking forward to having a lazy week watching the world cup and fixing my house.Maybe later this week I will expound the torcher that is the end of the term. But two weeks ago I went on trip to Morogoro, officially it was for in-service training. Unofficially it was a chance for 35 peace corps volunteers to reunite and have a good time, resulting in mullet fest.

Mullet fest was something that was suggested during pre-service training to occur during IST. At the time everybody thought it was a dumb idea. However, after spending several months without much contact to other people growing a mullet doesn't seem so bad. With very little organization the hair just grew. It was hilarious to see the way that some people's hair evolved since swearing in.

I believe that there were more pictures taken at mullet fest than other occasions so I expect many more pictures will become available. The first posted pictures are justin's page http://www.cs.odu.edu/~wild/africa and rob's page http://africanrobpics.blogspot.com.
Also if you like humour you may want to read Rob's blog as he a sultan of satire.

But onto more current times it is the World Cup and today I will watch more football with Mr. Massawe. Sometimes it is actually kind of sad to watch the games with Tanzanians because they are for any African team but are quite pessimistic about the outcome. At least the two guys I watch the World Cup with seem to view it as another form of European domination. The good African teams got placed in divisions were they will lose at least 2 games, while the poor teams were put in easier brackets but they still have no hope of going to the next round. At least America is expected to get eliminated tonight so I won't accidently gloat about our success.

Despite their lack of hope it is still a lot of fun to watch the games with them, because football is football and everybody loves to watch. Last night I learned that when the power goes out somebody has to go replace the wire. Of course they are not supposed to open the power box and replace the thin wire. But if they don't then they will miss the game. Last night the power went off about three times but it always came back within half an hour.
Enjoy the games.