The strike is on and we shall not relent until the Government gives us our demands 100 per cent. The Government must prepare for the mother of all strikes. Learning will be paralysed everywhere in the country.
-Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Chairman George Wesonga
As always, the boldface emphasis is mine.
Source: http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144004398&cid=4
So tomorrow it looks like, instead of teaching, I’ll be using my brand new iron and ironing board to smooth out wrinkles! Hm, it’s hard to get too excited about it. Well, on a related note, I promised some pictures, and since today was laundry day, you get to see some wet clothes. (They’re still drying outside.)
First, the setting: my courtyard. The entry gate on the right, choo/bathroom doorway in the center, and the door to my home is on the left. The green bucket on the ground is my bathtub. Yes, it’s a glamorous life here in Kenya.
Three hours worth of laundry: enough to make nudism seem tempting.
This spider was not very happy that I took over his courtyard. Cool yellow spots though.
The weekend was nice in that I took a break from education theory. I can get pretty worked up when I’m in research mode, so I made it a point to walk around town to do some shopping for the new home. Tomorrow I’ll be playing it by ear (a regretful idiom) but will hopefully still get a chance to talk with the headmaster about plans for my teaching role.
Lastly, in my attempts to save even more bandwidth (and money), I changed a lot of things in my own setup, so I updated the Phone Tricks page accordingly, this time with a lot more detail in the laptop software section. (I even wrote a custom Javascript plugin for Firefox, which you can download.)
Paul,
Well done on the blog, especially the video integration. I’m leaving for PC/Honduras at the end of the month and am trying to figure out what the best way to capture video and photo would be while serving. What equipment are you using to capture video?
I use a Panasonic LX-3 still camera. It’s great for indoors: F2.0 24mm lens. It records 720p video to an SDHC card, and I plug that into my laptop and convert the MOV to H.264 using a program called MeGUI. Then I upload it to my FTP site and then link to it from my blog. Clear as mud?
Paul,
Thanks so much for the answer. Exactly what I was looking for! That camera looks quite nice. Another question if you don’t mind: what ftp site do you use?
Please excuse me if the way I asked that question reveals my profound ignorance of how ftp works…
You use wordpress.com for your blog, and they don’t let you upload via ftp, but you can upload with the control panel, but I find that too slow. I pay for web hosting to store my files: http://www.hostmonster.com.
i love love love the bingo video. they are so adorable! i think that is really cool that they run the bingo rounds on their own also. and as for the socks….does this mean you will still be wanting socks for all holidays…or do u never want to put on a sockagain?