The African Pink Slip

Today's class was to be "Senior Thesis Seminar". It has been 10 to Noon every Tuesday and I have lately just gone to the classroom to discuss writing reports with whomever shows up. Last night it rained all night and it is still a moderate rain so I didn't expect too many students. Haji Omar did show up and took a picture of us with his iPhone.

Remember, we are south of the equator so things look very different here.

A few minutes later a gentleman entered who is in charge of the room assignments and asked if I had a key for Office #2 in the Old Science Building. If you remember, we made that key as a copy of Panraj's key at Saalim Keys in Iringa. Anyway, I didn't see any reason to keep the key so I gave it to him. I had a nice dry room in the Thin Client Lab for meeting with my students. OK, then in come my second year students to announce that the Thin Client Lab was to be the classroom now for them and another class? I guess this is the Africa way of giving you the pink slip: take your key and assign some other instructor to your classroom (that you have used for the past 3 months). I smiled and moved over to the other lab.

Anyway, it appears that no one else wants to brave the rain and come for sage advice. I guess we will head home and see what trouble we can stay out of. (I know, dangling preposition).