Idiosyncracies

There were a few little things today that gave me a little chuckle:
1. As I was driving down the main street into "town" to book a plane ticket today, I almost hit a PIG. Yup, a real live porker and two of his buddies were munching on the trash on the side of the road... right in front of the mosque :) Tee hee. These were the first pigs I've ever seen here, and I happened to see them hanging out at the mosque.
2. In a meeting today about the state of teacher education in this country, one of the "lead partners" answered a question that "yes, we will provide materials for all the teachers who are being trained in all partner's (other NGOs) teacher training programs. He then went on to say that they are training 6,000 teachers, and that they are printing 5,000 teacher's manuals. Didn't even realize the fact that not only are they NOT printing enough manuals for their own teachers, but they're certainly not printing enough to provide manuals for the other thousands of teachers who are being trained by the other partners! Something's not quite adding up here....

But anyhow, speaking of pork, the highlight of the day for me was a wonderful meal - complete with bacon tonight! One of our friends just came from Nairobi today, and she happened to bring a whole package of bacon with her! And I just happened to invite her over for dinner tonight, so we got to partake of the bacon. Yum yum. Life's little pleasures around here!