Satellite TV, and TMI about Ron

So our team is busy at work with our project. We have promised that we will compile a presentation for tomorrow morning which has involved a significant amount of data collection, analysis, and synthesis into a cohesive message. We have learned so much over the past week and are excited to hear how H will react to our suggestions. We also met Anjali for lunch today and had some good discussions. We are hoping to incorporate some of her suggestions into our analysis and next steps.

On another note: It’s very hot out there. We just got home and it’s probably only 80 degrees outside but it’s like 1000% humidity. I just thought I would mention this considering I see the weather in Boston is like -2,573 degrees or something equally ridiculously cold.

In other news: Ron knows a lot of jingles. We’ll be at the grocery store, and he’ll see some food like Milo (sort of like powdered chocolate milk) and he will start singing the jingle out loud (which is probably 15 years old, and everyone will be staring at us, not only because we are the only white people in a 50 mile radius, but because they must think we are crazy). His knowledge of pop culture and music is also outdated by about 15 years. Beth and I have been trying to give him some lessons, but he still thinks that Beyonce is in Destiny’s Child and Christina Applegate is in Married With Children. Watching the Golden Globe Awards last night Beth and I were trying to educate him. It was a lost cause.

One of these nights we’re planning on getting pizza delivery from Debonair’s, which is supposed to be the best pizza place in town (and quite possibly the only one). I think it’s like $5 for a pizza (including delivery) so we’ll let you know how it is. Ron and Fernando have decided that they want to try boerewors, (a South African beef sausage) which Beth and I have decided will be the same night that we will be trying the Indian restaurant down the road. Of course, Ron is not yet ready for Indian food, considering his stomach situation. We’re not sure if it was the mysterious chicken concoction at the African restaurant in Livingstone or all of the Zambezi River water that he drank, but we have all heard way too much about his bodily functions and finally convinced him tonight to start taking some medicine so he will be back to normal again.

So last night we stopped by our local market, and while Beth, Fernando and I were bargaining with the locals to buy some bananas and apples (ok, not so much haggling, we always just pay full price) Ron decided that he wanted to see Madagascar 2. Interestingly enough there are these street vendors with, I’m sure, completely legal versions of many popular movies. So Ron came back, all smiles, saying that he had gotten a bargain, paying only 20,000 kwacha ($4 USD) for an array of 40 movies. The rest of us looked at each other, completely skeptical but decided to take a chance on it anyways. So we got home, and as I made dinner they popped in the DVD to find that most of the movies had both Russian, Japanese and English versions. Of course, Madagascar 2 was THE ONLY ONE that did not have an English option. Actually, to be fair, it has a Russian version with English subtitles and that’s on our agenda to watch tonight. Satellite tv is great and all, but there’s only so much Cashmere Mafia that the guys will put up with.