Today's interesting experience was an inspection of my new office. It is office 10 in the new science building and we were supposed to move into the offices today. I went up to the building and the guard gave me a hard hat (he didn'w wear one). We slogged up thru the construction to the second floor in the back (not accessible from the front of the building). There were two floors of very nice offices, none of which were labelled nor complete. The guard said that it would be at least a few more days before we would be able to move in. This building is well off the campus and one of the students said that the only thing I can talk to up there is the forest.
After class we returned to the apartment to take the folks to market. We needed pop, juice, butter, and lots of other heavy stuff. Unfortunately, this may be one of our last trips in the Toyota. The government established a program last year to buy fuel for the country so that they could keep track of how much tax they should collect from the distributors. Unfortunately, they signed contracts for fuel at prices the providers no longer are honoring. The other problem is that they have only one shipping port to import fuel. The result is that the fuel has run out in Iringa. They have one station open that will sell you one gallon at a time. Here is a partial view of the line of cars and folks at the station.
So now as far as I can tell, the semester is underway and classes won't be interrupted by convocations and high mucky-mucks, but with no gas or diesel the faculty and students won't be able to make it to the school. We still have 1/4 tank and will probably make it thru the week. I guess if we run out we will just push the Toyota over to the side of the road and turn it into a stand to sell cashews. (Which by the way, are really good here.).
That is the news for now. More later.
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