Achievements of the Past Month

- A debate dinner, during the course of which I realized that pizza is surprisingly easy to make.
- I used duct tape to fix an actual duct, for the first time ever
- I started PhD program applications… key word being “started”
- Let my nerdy side loose by playing far too many games of Citadels… highly addictive
- Read six books
- Taught roughly 115 periods, give or take a few
- Convinced some kids that my Herero nickname (Rakutuka) was in fact my real surname
- Realized that Facebook is just not all that exciting now that I have had such little access to it the past 10 months
- Played (rough estimate) 200 games of minesweeper
- Received the first glimmers of hope in regards to my running fitness
- Posted two letters, one to the US and one to Guinea
- Managed to somehow go to the bank and not spend forty-five minutes in line
- Spent a total of several hours anticipating the pleasure of cold weather
- Reveled in the return of rain
- Decided that a reliable, constant source of water is one of the things that makes life easy for me in the US
- Saw the sunrise over the plateau 30 times. Won’t ever get tired of that one
- Had my hopes raised yet again by the Twins, only to have them dashed by the Yankees. Sigh
- Started wearing sunscreen again
- Decided that the next five years are up for grabs