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Archive for August 24th, 2009

prayers for rain

Monday, August 24th, 2009

I have encountered two encouraging signs in the past fews day. The latter is the single drop of rain I felt on Monday night after coming back from campus. The former is the voice of Garrison Keillor  I heard on the TV radio channel broadcasting A Prairie Home Companion over NPR international – a slice of home [...]

the pigs are walking!!!

Monday, August 24th, 2009

The internet at KUAST seems to be behind the Saudi Arabia firewall – which all of us were promised again and again would not be true. There are only 700 workers doing housing stuff now. 20 days to move in is the best estimate. Nobody is giving us a real answer. The hotel we are [...]