You may recall in an earlier blog I mentioned seeing monkeys. Well, it was the first day I had arrived and I was brought into the office for a little while. I was pretty tired and just wanted to sleep. When we left the clinic, I was surprised to see a group of monkeys hanging out near the clinic. I recall pointing them out to my supervisor and he told me that they are often around the campus. If I hadn't had that brief conversation I would probably have assumed that the whole thing never happened because in two weeks of work, I had not seen another monkey. Until yesterday. I was leaving work and looked back and there was a group of cute monkeys nibbling at the banana peels left over from lunch. And I didn't have my camera :( So now I will start bringing my camera with me so that someday I will catch the monkeys and be able to post photos. That is assuming I can ever manage to upload photos. This evening I will try the internet cafe.
Religion is an interesting topic here. Everyone is religious, the only question is "Christian or Mulsim"? A tough question to answer for me as, first, I'm Jewish, and second, I'm not religious. So if I respond with "I'm Jewish", so far, I either get told about how I'm of the chosen people or I get asked quite random questions about Judaism. Once I was asked to teach someone how Jews pray. When I said I didn't pray they called me a liar. seriously. After several challenging conversations about being Jewish, I decided once to try to say that I'm not religious. They kinda just stared blankly at me. So finally I just said I'm Jewish and that seemed less confusing but they still looked at me like they thought I was lying. Everyone I've spoken to also seems to think that being Jewish and Israeli are interchangable.
Working in a health clinic is rather distracting. There are constantly sick people sounds... like vomiting, crying, occasionally screaming. and the place smells like disinfectant a lot of the time. We are supposed to be moving to our own office in the next few weeks. Should be a nice change except that I will be sharing a large office with my supervisor... I'll have to make sure I set up my desk so the monitor is facing away from him or no more random internet use.
I've been a little sick that last couple of days. Just a bad cold but it kept me up all night sniffling so I was pretty tired. Finally got a good night sleep tonight so am feeling much better. Usually I get woken up at 6:30 by the neighbor who seems to be an automechanic/fridge refurbishre and who likes to work with power tools between 6:30 and 7:30 in the morning.
Work has really been picking up this week so I've been quite busy with, hopefully, useful stuff. Will write more about what I'm doing next time.
Again: haven't been able to upload photos but I'm working on it.
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You know, since the whole mouse thing didn't work out, monkeys can make pretty good pets. Just something to consider. You also probably want to avoid deep theological arguments with the locals if you can.
No way! My neighbours like to do construction at 6-7am too! Saturdays seem to be their favourite day... Hope you're feeling better.
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