Bought a Giraffe from a Pygmy

yes yes, you read it right, i bought a giraffe from a patois pygmy on saturday his name is Gilbert. He's pretty awesome. Despite his stature, He keeps me company. He's small and ceramic and sits on my night stand but he's a great listener. This was the highlight of saturday.

This week has had a slow start. Lakshmy has been sick with some sort of dysenteric infection which i've gotten a touch of. We've been taking it easy and have postponed our trip to lake kivu off for a few weekends. I think this weekend we will just hand around the city.

I did get a new roomate, her name is Kate and she just graduated from Johns Hopkins. She's lived in africa before but is still getting adjusted to how things go here. She's going to be my new running buddy. We went for a jog last night.

The birthday festivities were fun on Monday. Went to Ice and Spice for dinner and had an Indian feast with April, Clement, Taylor, Ty, Kate, Ajanta, and Lakshmy. I was stuffed.

Its been raining a lot as the rainy season draws to a close and I will be ecstatic when the mid day sun returns. My plane ticket for my safari arrived today and I'm very excited, so is mom. We leave three weeks from tomorrow and I am counting the days to seeing a zebra in the wild, and a cheetah, and an elephant, and about a million other things. Its been great to hear from the states so much. At least once a day I have a moment where I think "what am I doing here?" and the emails and phone calls from the states are the only things that keep me sane. Love to you all.