HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
E.Mathemera was getting his hair cut this evening, and the power went out in the middle of it! The good thing was that he didn't look too bad till you looked really close. Fortunately, the power came back before we left, so he was able to get it fixed, but he was having to prepare himself to attend DDM with the half finished hair cut. I found the whole thing funny, so it'll probably happen to me when I get my hair cut next week. Knowing karma, the power won't come back in time for me to get my hair fixed. True horror there.
"Finally, Kiingereza"
So our phone has been in Swahili for the entire time I've been here. We've essentially been in the blind the entire time. For the phones here, it's all pre-paid, so if we want to check our balance it would be in Swahili. For all we know, they were just sending us a court date, or telling us that our car had been stolen. Sijui Kiswahili, so we were completely in the dark. Calling home was a right old pain too. I ended up having E.Bailey show me on his phone the steps, and I wrote them all down, just because I couldn't understand anything. For all I know, I was selling my immortal soul for 1200 seconds of calling time.
BUT!!!
We got help from a member today, and now, finally, the phone is in English! It's sweet relief, almost a dream. It...almost doesn't seem right. Anyway, for my own sanity, I'm writing the language changing code here: 140. Type that into the phone, call it, and you can change the language. FUN!
Ahh, here's a fun fact: Hakuna (as in Hakuna Matata) essentially means that you "don't have" something. It still translates to no worries, but I know what hakuna means now. Now I need to figure out the subtleties of: Aina Shida. Which also means no worries. Near as I can tell, it means something more along the line of "it's not a worry." Dunno, still working on it.
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