So, now that I am here for a year, my time here has taken a VERY different form. Usually, in the summers, the time is a few weeks, super-intense, and very temporal...meaning we eat out everynight, we live in temporary places, etc. Adjusting to real-life here is taking some time. It means I must learn to cook, to clean, where to get things here, and how to manage my time when it is no longer jam-packed teaching action every second. Now, it is alot of keeping up with emails, researching grants and networking possibilities, and thinking through future plans for my program.
It is the less-sexy side of what we do. Sure, it's cool that I am in Africa...but, when the day-to-day activities involve sitting at a computer most of the day, there is not alot to talk about...or at least that YOU'D want to hear about. But, that will be my challenge...to keep you riveted to our stories and our work and our women...because life is full of the non-sexy too....in fact, that is what MOST of life is....the non-sexy.
Stay with us over the next few weeks, as we have some cool things coming your way...and we need you even more when it is not sexy and glamorous!!!
It is the less-sexy side of what we do. Sure, it's cool that I am in Africa...but, when the day-to-day activities involve sitting at a computer most of the day, there is not alot to talk about...or at least that YOU'D want to hear about. But, that will be my challenge...to keep you riveted to our stories and our work and our women...because life is full of the non-sexy too....in fact, that is what MOST of life is....the non-sexy.
Stay with us over the next few weeks, as we have some cool things coming your way...and we need you even more when it is not sexy and glamorous!!!
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