Jenna and I visited a school for the deaf this morning. It was very interesting and the kids there were very very nice. Of course, the teachers hadn’t been paid in four years and there were only two of them for many, many students. But other than that, they seemed to have a very good community.
I took about 40 minutes of video which I’m going to edit into about 4 to 6 minutes of material, so . . . hopefully that’ll be done tonight or tomorrow.
In another interesting note: people don’t go out when it rains here. This morning it was raining like nothing you’ve ever heard or seen (it doesn’t look like much on video, otherwise I’d post it) and when I finally got to work, it was completely empty. “Why?” you ask? Because many people in CAR don’t come to work when it rains. I’ve been told it’s because people don’t have the proper equipment (jackets, galoshes, umbrellas) to appropriately cover up so that when they arrive at work they’re not soaking wet. Thus, they simply don’t come.
This has been an issue for some of my clients in New York. I’ll ask them why they didn’t go to an interview that we set up for them and they’ll say, “It was raining!” So you’ve cleared up some things for me – now I know where that comes from.