Students and going to market

Friday is my 8 AM class in Discreet (sic) Structures. Here is a picture of the classroom at 8:05 AM.

Here is my desk and single chalk board at the front of the room (teacher provides chalk and eraser)

And here is the outlet at the front of the room for my computer. I guess they forgot the socket and will let the faculty member just wrap the wires around the computer plug.

A few minutes later, Francis, my Class Representative, poked his head in and said "class is here?". I said yes and he scurried off to get the rest of the students. They showed up a few minutes later and we made it thru logic, propositions and predicates. I was proud of myself until I tried to explain Satisfiability! I put a complex logical expression on the board and asked them how to get all the variables needed to make the expression true. Blank stares! I quickly erased that and make a simple expression P and not Q and asked how to satisfy that. By brute force I found that P = True and Q = False satisfies that expression. They did well answering my questions and giving examples of P implies Q and P if and only if Q. The two hours went quickly and I gave them the assignment to do the MIT assignment 1 by next Friday.

After class, I found Dale in the Multipurpose room listening to the Provost lecture the first year students on how to be a good student. We snuck out of that and went to Dale's office. The discovery there was one of the vehicles from "Cars".

I have no idea what that is and there is a reward if you can figure it out.

Once back at the apartment we went on a "mission" (refraining from calling it a "Mission from God" for obvious reasons, Dale was driving) to find the beer store. We went to Mama Eda's and did some basic shopping (she remembers -- or makes up -- the prices for all the items in her little store). We had been to the beer store a couple weeks ago, but forgot the location. Everyone said it was by the bus depot. There are three depots within a few blocks of each other so this made the search a challenge. Caleb and I started down the street to the bus depot and found a pop store whose owner lead us to the beer store. I will take a picture of the place but again it is about the size of a large closet and stacked high with empty and full cases of pop and beer. We got a 24 bottle case for 28,000 shillings after we gave Dale directions to the store via phone. He found it and we put the new case of beer in the car and sent him home with our spoils. Caleb and I headed across the main highway to the farmer's market to help bring Carrie and Sharon's shopping home. Here are some pictures of Carrie getting tomatoes and peppers.

Rice and beans are piled in these clearly conditionally unstable pyramids of product. Every once in a while one of the piles (today it was cabbage) becomes unstable and tumbles to the floor. I have no idea how you keep these piles in that shape.

We finished our shopping and headed home. There are actually clouds in the sky and it looks like it may rain. The forecast is for 40% rain today, but Sharon says those meteorologists don't have a clue what the weather will be doing. See what I have to live with? Thanks for reading. Saturday, I have to get more pictures of the market and some of the interesting things that they sell.