Wednesday, August 24, 2005 I'm in Parakou! Actually, I'm at the Mayor's office in Parakou, my home for the next two years. What's more, I'm dialed into the net during daylight hours and I'm not sharing with 20 other people on outdated computers. Well, this computer might be slightly out-dated... but not terribly so. It has a 52X CD-ROM. Ah, I'm getting pushed out now... I'm going to see where I'll be living for the next 2 years. Oh well, travel went well today and things are going. I will be buying a cell-phone (or getting mine unlocked) before Saturday... watch for the update to my contact info. I'll of course also make a blog entry of course. What's more though is that with the carrier here (well, the one I'm getting anyway) we'll be able to exchange international text messages. Ooooh. If you have Cingular they cost exactly the same as regular text messages, so all you Cingulites have no excuses not to send me at least one message. It's 10 cents, think of the starving child in Africa (me).