SAVE

Everything has been moving smoothly forward here. I cannot write long here since the cable to my laptop is partly broken, so the laptop may collapse it anytime! The reason why I haven't been to an internet Cafe is that I have been surviving on my last two dollars in my wallet for two days, and probably have another two or three days to go, so it is time for some emergent savings now!

It is not that hard to live on 1 dollar for the past two and a half days. One just need to shrink his meals to one time per day and have some beans only for the meal. But one needs to be careful of when exactly to have the meal-it cannot be too early, nor too late-so I choose to take it at around two in the afternoon. So I would not feel terribly hungry either in the morning, before the meal, or in the late evening, after taking the meal for several hours.

It had rained heavily for an hour this afternoon. I opened the front door to the centre and sat on a chair near the door, reading my new novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and meanwhile enjoying the chill wind. I felt a little cold while in the middle of my reading, but my whole body and soul was involved in Marquez's graceful telling. I was completely lost, confidently, stealthily, in his fantasy. OK, I know this is not a place talking about literature, so I stop here.

The chicks have been growing well, too well in fact! They are getting extremely big in size considering the days we have been raising them! I'll try to put some new photos on here, but HOW is the question now!

Tomorrow I am scheduled to attend in Hotel Africana the 4th National Paediatric HIV Conference which is going to last for three to four days, each day from morning to dawn. It is still too early to  determine how much of what will be told tomorrow in the conference is true in reality, but as a golden rule for me and for some others working here in the community-the problems which are yet to be solved are always true, but with less exaggerations; the numerical achievements are always proved to be false, but with even more exaggerations.