Liam in Africa

This is a blog dedicated to Liam Hanks' trip to The Gambia. Please feel free to leave comments! Be sure to check out the Archives for older posts so you can get the whole story!

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Another Update

This week went by quite quickly. I started looking at charts with the computer classes (graphs etc.) and decided to give them a test on what we've been covering recently. I finished reading all of the books that I borrowed, and just today brought them back, and picked up some new ones - a series of 4 books that are apparently really, really good. I don't think I'll be able to read them as quickly as the last batch; there won't be as many holidays.
To answer some questions. The sock idea would work, except that it is about 1000 degrees, even at night, and I can barely stand to even have a sheet over me! I do try now to pull the sheet up over my elbows if I move into a position that puts them near the net, but most of the time now there aren't any mosquitos in the house at all - thanks to new screens, and insecticide! The rainy season lasts until October - just when I leave. Basically I arrived just before it began, so I'm here for the hot, wet season! Fortuntely when it does rain it tends to cool off a bit, and when its cloudy it stays cooler too, although not by very much.
Aside from that there really isn't very much new. This week was basically just a normal week of teaching the computer classses and doing my usual things. Tomorrow I'm hoping to go to Dumbuto with Kia (Faramarz's brother who is here house-sitting while the Shams' are in Canada), so I'll probably have something to post about that!
Just a note about comments; I would very much appreciate it if people would put their name somewhere in the post. It helps me to know who you are! Thanks.