Day Eight: Working Hard & Swimming Pools

Everyone is officially here from New York and LA...we got in our last shipment of teachers yesterday and start our first day of school tomorrow.

We did quite a lot of work over the last few days, carrying and unpacking 108 boxes full of equipment, setting up classrooms and troubleshooting (a lot). Turns out our facilities lose power quite often...not the best thing for a film school. We also had a smoking dvd player today and need to figure out how to trouble shoot that for class tomorrow...but yeah I can't go into too much detail tonight as I am tired of thinking of it now and need to hop in bed....

But the best thing I have ever experienced and will continue to do every day after work while I am here is jump in the pool after a long days work...sorry all you New Yorkers, but it is absolutely amazing!

our hotel pool*

I also just want to take a moment to talk about the 300 hundred Christian Nigerians that were slaughters this morning in a village about 3 hrs from here called Jos. This was a religious retaliation from some Muslims, who suffered a similar fate by the hands of some Christians a few months ago. You can read about it here. This conflict will not and has not put me in any type of immediate or future danger, so you don't need to worry about that, but this fighting and brutality is something that is such a reality here.

a man selling drinks on the high way*

*pictures taken by Eliana Alvarez