New office!

More surprises today. On my desk this morning was a list of new offices for Technology and Education Faculty. The offices were listed 1 thru 12 with two faculty in each room except for the Dean of the Division and the Assistant Dean. Hmmm! The building presently housing the IT faculty has about 7 offices with one labeled 2 and another labeled 5.(There are no signs on the other doors). This is the present "Science Park" building where I had an office until today.

Clearly this was not the building with 12 offices. I asked one of my office mates and he took me outside and pointed up the hill toward the Theology and Law office wings. (I find it interesting that the religion and law professors are separated by a moat.) Looking up there he said: "see the building with the people". Yes, there were groups of people along the nearby office buildings. But no, he meant the building with the people on top. The workers working on the 4th and 5th floors of the new Science Building. My office is #10 Science. I will have to find it on Friday.

My 2nd year students wanted help with computer networking today, so I opened the "Thin Client Lab". The door on the lab has a high security lock and is clearly meant to keep these PC's from escaping.

The class gathered and I gave most of my introductory networking talk in the two hours they had until their next class. The classroom is small but it is very easy to engage them when they cannot hide in the back. They all want to learn and this may have started an informal class that will have to continue through the semester.

The weather has been blustery (for Iringa) with lots of wind blowing the dust around. Some of the evenings have been hazy as if the monsoon moisture is getting inland this far. So far we have had a number of days with rain forecast, but no rain. As for shopping and food, Carrie and Sharon had a new adventure to the "cooking school" today. Apparently, this school teaches classes of all age groups and also cooks up bread and pastries and such for sale. We tried to find the school last week but it is hidden behind a nursery school and wasn't obvious. They found it today and bought some pastries.