Third Week:

Not much to write about. The work I'm doing for Freedom Firm right now is principally writing a paper for a conference, some other writing. It's been good though. I'd expand on that but future posts will delve into it in greater depth as I finish these projects.
A ten year old walked me home today, or almost. Sometimes it's a handshake, sometimes a picture but usually I just get stared at. Cute kid though. His birthday's Sept. 1. His sister's is a couple weeks after, they "fight well."
There's an interesting practice here (actually thousands of interesting practices but I'm going to write about this one). There are two men with leprosy I see everyday on my way to work. One of the means for destitute individuals to make money, I guess, is with a scale. I'm guessing people give them money to weigh them. What I find interesting is that in America most people would give money not to know what they weigh...anyway.
Let's see...I "head-waggled" someone recently. Didn't even realize I was doing it, and I'm sure it wasn't done well. The head waggle is side to side (head towards one shoulder and then back towards the other shoulder) and I've probably seen it about a thousand times since I've been here. It's sort of just a genial, "How are You?"; "Thanks"; etc.
Another interesting practice (I couldn't resist) has to do with medications, or rather the distribution thereof. I got a little ill, nothing too serious or unexpected. So one of the Freedom Firm staff, Jayson, took me to a place that sells medications. No prescription required. Luckily I knew what I needed; but the amazing thing was the price. For approximately a quarter I got an amount of medicine that would have cost $50 in America. It's not even generic, Glaxo-Smith-Kline. That made me happy. At least these people can afford medicine they need. (I'm trying to focus on the positive, since there are many serious consequences to this kind of practice.)
Weather is getting really nice, beautiful even.