Thursday, October 9, 2003

I'm the class representative! Funny story. So I was in my Democracy and Elections class yesterday for the first real lecture and the teacher started the class by asking, "What is Democracy?" Of course no one answer and she asked the students if they had a class representative, which is the person in charge of answering when no one else does and the person in charge of talking to the teacher if the class has a problem. The class said, no we don't have one and some one in the back shouted in swahili, "Mzungo pamoja nywele!" Essentially, the white guy with the hair! Everyone yelled in agreement and so I was elected class representative and had to answer the question. Then today, my second day in office, the microphone wouldn't work...actually the teacher and the students didn't know how to use it, so once again I was called to action to fix the problem. It's rough with so much responsibility, but hey, there's only one white guy with the hair.

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