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Hey folks,

Not a whole lot to report at the moment. Had a pretty nice Saturday. Slept in, played some Ultimate frisbee with a ton of people (we normally have like 14, this week was close to 30). After that we went to a restaurant called Net Café. It does neither coffees nor internet, but has good food. As long as you're willing to wait an hour and a half... But we anticipated this and brought a deck of cards. So it was all good.

This past week I've been helping out at a conference doing technical stuff. Setting up sound equipment, making sure the projectors are working... and if the power goes off, turn on the generator. The work isn't too exciting, but the conference was pretty interesting. It was called Theological Education in Africa (TEA) and they had a ton of speakers from Nigeria, Kenya, Ireland, UK, Canada and the States. I sat in on the workshops, they were pretty interesting. But that's all over now.

Starting Monday I hope to take a Hausa class. Hausa is one of the hundreds of languages spoken in Nigeria (languages, not just dialects...) But Hausa is one of the more common languages in this area. So, that class is ever morning Monday-Friday for the next six weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to say more than just 'hello' after all that.

We'll see how it goes, since it means I'll only be working half days for the next six weeks, as well as taking a month off when Julia comes (yay!!) at the end of July. I'm pretty excited for that...

Not a whole lot else has been happening out here. Be glad to hear from y'all! (I was just hanging out with a guy from Texas, sorry...)

I'll leave you with a photo of what happens when a group of volunteers are left with too much duct tape and not enough to do...