Friday, July 18, 2008

Day 2: Eye Wide Shut

I battled a mosquito in my sleep and woke on the other side of the world to find that my bed had shifted a half foot from the wall, or should i say a sixth of a meter. A bite or two over my left eyelid and I can empathize with Forest Whitaker's ptosis.

We started the day off with a trip to the ATM resulting in a million kwachas followed by Shoprite (a walmart subsidiary?). We stocked up on overpriced groceries, made our way back, and met the project staff. After dawdling at the site for a bit, we joined the crowd for a management meeting at IAVI.

Back at the flats, Liz invited us to flat 2 for veggie burgers. YUMMM. After dinner banter, the girls decided to watch the OC so Ben and I hightailed it out of there.

With mosquito bites quickly outnumbering the days of my stay, Ben and I hotboxed our room with a mosquito burner. So far so good.

Relativity and paradigms are a funny thing. Jet lag is tragic.

1 comment:

jennifermv said...

Mom, do I need to send you mosquito nets?