New arrival

I've finally met our third housemate, Edwin, who is both a technical/computer guy and a epi guy who does work with HIV stuff. A handy guy to have around- he's fixed the second internet connection, and pulled a melted power prong out of a wall socket (while the power was out, and we were on battery). We went shopping at Garden City again today, and I bought mango juice, 5 liters of water, and more stuff for curries and drinking in general. And a 1 dollar fake swiss army pocketknife, which I feel much happier having around- I used to always have some sort of cutting tool in my backpack, which always was useful (cutting carrots for horses, or tags off of shirts, or tape, etc.). It has already happily cut off the top to the mango juice cardboard carton, as well as opened my 5 liter jug of water for me (the plastic cap was fused to the plastic ring that keeps the cap from coming off, so I just cut through the little plastic bits that keep the two fused together). All in all, a relaxing day, since we just came back and watched spiderman the movie on my laptop, and otherwise did nothing.

Edwin knows a lot about the area, and has a good bit of experience with the place- he was here during the elections this past year, and he said that the entire capital shut down- there were just armed guards camping all over, and the entire city turned off, nobody went on the streets, everyone hid at home, while he walked to the hospital surrounded by military personnel. Interesting story- will relate new ones as they come up.