Miscellaneous Rant

I have insomnia again. I woke up this morning at around 1:45 and couldn't go back to sleep until I'm guessing around 5:00ish which is annoying because that's the time people on my compound start preparing for their morning tasks. I'm wondering if it's the Mefloquin that's causing this insomnia...I really don't know. Normally I would use my cellphone to get on the internet but...Celtel, the worst cellphone service provider ever, isn't working! They give a new meaning to bad customer service. First off, their towers went down for a day and a half! The majority of the country uses Celtel so we were all without any type of service for a full day. I can't imagine this happening in America and people not going insane. Anyway, so finally their cell towers are working again, but internet will not work. I've called for 2 days and they said it should be fixed, but now I can't even get through to customer care from my phone. Can you imagine not being able to contact a company about customer service???? Normally I would just go to the nearest Celtel location (which is what they advise on the recording), but it is 60km away and I can't get there right now. That's around a 2 hour bus ride. I apologize for this rant. I just want to make it known that CELTEL = WORST CELLPHONE SERVICE PROVIDER EVER!!!!

In other Peace Corps related news...the 3 musketeers is now down to 1. Eric Hastie and Ryan Hill both went home. During training we would ride our bikes through Chishiko village, complaining all the way (well, just Ryan and Me because Eric was the Lance Armstrong of the group...without HGH of course). They just up and left me. In their defense, they didn't have adequate housing, and were constantly harassed for money, and I guess this was too much for them to handle. I will definitely miss them.

I want to thank those people who email me on a daily basis...I know you're at work and extremely busy, but taking time to email me makes me feel great!!! So, thanks to Melanie, Candice, Sam, Chris and Nancy...and especially my Mom who actually got an email address just so she can keep in touch with me! I love you all.

Kim

P.S. To those who I have emailed constantly with no response...thanks!!!!