Goings On Around Here

While Kevin and I are busy writing, proctoring, grading, and returning something like 300 mid-term tests, I want to take just a few minutes to update you on life at the Flaute household.

A group of Engineers Without Borders from Pennsylvania came to Lara's school a few weeks ago, enlivening our lives quite a bit and bringing some much-needed and much-appreciated improvements to the school grounds, including toilets and pipes that run directly into the underground cesspits. They also came over for dinner twice and then before they left, they brought us a duffle bag (no joke) full of good ole American snacks and even some instant mashed potatoes. It was awesome.

They also gifted us with this amazing hammock that our good friend the Reverend Joe Abu is shown testing out:

And in other news, Kevin just purchased a shirt and matching cap made from hand-woven kontri klos (country cloth) in Sierra Leone blue, white, and green.  The fanciness of this outfit is somewhere in the range of wearing a suit here in Salone. If you add matching trousers, it's basically a tux.  Isn't he snazzy?

Except for the shoes, Kevin is ready to blof some serious style!