So last night, I thought, let me give the MP3 player one more chance... I turned it on, and held my breath to see what would happen. And it turned on as if nothing had been wrong! So whoever prayed that my trusty little MP3 friend would be resurrected... God answered your prayer. Thanks! I very happily listened to two whole cds worth of music as I read about African Religion and Philosophy by Mbiti. Interesting book, if you can get your hands on it.
I also saw with the Teaching Assistant in my course this afternoon to discuss the education system where I'm working. He's putting together a proposal to do a PhD research on Contextualizing the curriculum for the situation there. It was so interesting to talk with him - and he's already done an MA in educational research and evaluation, so he really knows what he's talking about. We had a good, stimulating conversation about education and culture and language... all those things that I love :)
It's really great when you find people who you can have a good conversation with about the things that you love, you know? His PhD topic is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping to do my research paper on, so we discussed that, too, and he gave me some good ideas for which direction to take with my research paper. But the paper is only 15 pages long... and he gets to write an entire PhD dissertation on the subject! I must admit, I was a little envious about that. But I hope that his research and the things he finds out will help us in our work over there, too, since this is an area that no one to my knowledge has done much research into.
It's time to go home before it gets dark. I hope the MP3 player works today, since I have a long weekend of reading ahead of me! Tomorrow I get to go to a funeral with Florence. That should be interesting...! Maybe I'll stop at the National Park on the way and go on the Safari walk. I drive by there on the matatu every day, and I think that it would be really nice to go through there for a walk; supposedly you can walk and see the lions and giraffes and all the other wild animals that live in the national park. But we'll see how much time I have after the funeral (which will be across the street from the national park at the cemetary).
3 comments:
I think it was Pokey and Spike who were praying for your Iriver!! Doesn't it say somewhere that "The prayers of hedgehogs prevaileth much" or something like that? Or would that be a "Possible Skewed (or how ever you spell that word) Translation" Translation Principle?
Don't forget that Spike likes mangos and I saw Pokey yawn today :)
Don't forget that I'm a little retarded, too. Oh wait, how could you ever forget THAT??
So, will I be seeing your Iriver at conference? On the long bus ride to conference? Ha ha!!
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