...only on shirts in Freetown...

"The one who desires to be known by others does not yet know himself."

That's what I saw written on a man's t-shirt this morning on my way to school. It made me think a little...in fact, I might even use it as a conversation starter with my students. Not that they really need any help in starting conversations...they're quite loquacious. My kind of people, really. I love my students! Yes, they annoy me sometimes. Yes, there are days when I want to kill them, but generally, they make me laugh and I care about how they are doing. Sometimes, it's good to be a teacher.

Sometimes it's a little harder. One of my students asked me some hard questions yesterday that I stumbled and bumbled out answers for. The first question was "If Africans and Europeans started out at the same place in terms of development (thousands of years ago) why are Europeans so far ahead of Africans now?" ...and the second, "Why do Europeans think they're so much better than Africans?" Egad. What would you have said?

Onto lighter subjects: Last night I was told that I'm a very serious person. In fact, that I never seem to laugh and that it is very difficult to make me laugh. This isn't the first time I've heard this very statement since I've been here. I've never heard this at home.

So my question is this: Really? Am I a hard person to make laugh? Because I never knew that...is that true?

And finally, thanks Titus for introducing me to www.facebook.com. I am now obsessed. If I'm ever lacking a source for procrastination, I can rely on Titus to pull through for me (and on many other things over and above procrastination, I must add). Join. Search. Connect.

(I should be a paid for this).