"If condoms cost 10,000 Tsh, all the poor people would die."

I thought I'd just tell you all a little about classes.

As I said, orientation is slightly boring. I have spent the last five days coloring unicorns in my coloring book. I'm cool. I do entertain everyone coloring them. They like to watch. It's entrancing.

We do a lot of group work and then get up and present whatever it is we're supposed to present. We do a lot of the same material over and over again, but it's the important stuff. During one presentation, a group was talking about ways of preventing sexual transmission of HIV. One of the ways is condom use. The rest of the class is kind of supposed to ask questions that people might get asked in a real session. Frank asked, "Why are some condoms cheaper than others? Are they worse than the expensive ones?" Sam, who was one of the people presenting, said "If all condoms cost 10,000 shillings, all the poor people would die." It was so funny because he was so straight-faced when he said it. Sara and I were the only ones who heard and we were cracking up. That earned us a look from our teacher, Kate. So worth it though.

I used to sit in the front and take notes. Now I sit in the back. We have a crew. It's usually Sara, Peery, and I and then whoever gets lucky enough to sit by us. Haha. Just kidding. But we always have a good time, anyone we're with. We like to make inappropriate comments at appropriate times. We say ridiculous things. I entertain Emmanuelle with my coloring of the unicorns.

We always have a lot of fun in class though, no matter how long the day is. We've been doing teaching demonstrations and yesterday a group was presenting on relationship skills. The question was, "What do you look for in a relationship?" Frank said, "A big butt." So I countered with, "I think the man should pay for everything." Which, if you saw us all together, you would know was a jab (jabb?) at Frank for saying women should have big butts. I just looked up to see him shaking his head at me. Which is just great. We have a great relationship. Sometimes we like to beat each other up. But really we're friends. Maybe.

It's the same with everyone. We all get along so well and can joke so easily together. Except Yonas/Jonas/John. Whatever comes out of your mouth, he'll respond to. Sara and I are always messing with him. "Sara, Hawk, are you joking me?" Then we start laughing and he says, "Listen me!" It's just so hilarious. He doesn't trust us. He's suspicious of everything we do or say. We love it.

We find out our teaching groups today. It's kind of sad because we'll all be splitting up. We're definitely going to have to meet up on the weekends. It will be interesting to see who we are put with and if they took into account our input. It will all be good in the end. But we'll see.

All right, more to come later!!

Baadai (or Baaday or Baaydai or something... I'm not entirely sure how to spell that...)