Sorry — this weekend was a disaster in terms of being able to do updates. There was a combination of no power and thus no internet or power and no internet. In any case, this weekend was very slow. We ended up going over to the Alliance Francaise to get Jenna signed up for a short language course. It was ridiculously bureaucratic, involving standing in several lines and filling out paperwork: it was almost as if they don’t want to you sign up.
Anyway, we tried to get her into the least advanced course because she speaks no French at all. Despite our promises that she, indeed, spoke no French, the man who helped us insisted that she take a test. She did, and when he came back to grade it, started laughing at her answers and corrected her as is she ought to have known better. Then Jenna starts looking at me and says: he knows I don’t speak French right? (as if I hadn’t translated properly)
After that we stopped over at the UN Residence for a going away party (the head of UNDP and OCHA — one guy — is leaving at the end of this week). I was impressed: everyone really let loose.
Other than that, we went to hang out at someone’s house on Sunday. Their view of the city is really quite spectacular — even if the city itself isn’t so spectacular — so, behold: Bangui vs the power failure!
