The house still has a number of problems. Foremost, no electricity since Sunday. Which means, amongst other things, cold baths. The average high temperature is 73 in the middle of the day with lows in the afternoons/evenings in the high 50s. So not the typical hot weather that most people imagine with Africa. We're not very optimistic the electricity will be fixed anytime soon so I guess we had better get used to cold baths. I guess it will be good to get used to since my field work will probably be under similar conditions.
Okan started back working at Kaplan today. As long as he works from campus he seems able to get some work done. The internet on campus (which has been working most of the time- touch wood) is actually really fast. We've been pleasantly surprised. The modem we got for the house is miserable- hardly worth getting online unless it's for something important. The biggest challenge for Okan is that the NYC workday starts at 4pm our time. Although now that we have no electricity, there's no real rush to get home anytime early! I have an extra desk in my office so we're sharing office space which is nice. He'll head back to Kigali later this week to keep up the car hunt while I do my teaching.
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