I have been without internet for almost 3 days now; so will backtrack a bit.

Feb 13,  I went out to see Tata Mahuna²s farm today. We drove about 15 kms on his chinese made 125 moto. What wonderful country.We passed through a couple valleys of the most green; lush country you will ever see. He has significant fields of corn and manioc. On return, his moto couldnt pull us both up some of the sandy inclines so I walked a good number of steps uphill. I especially appreciated the Tata's comment, 'the chain is a bit loose', so whenever I heard it starting to jump teeth, I gladly bailed out rather than having to push a moto back to town.

  I was exhausted that day but did get to the cyber cafe yet. The owner and I are friends. His name sounds a bit like 'Sparky', so I just call him, 'Sparky'. He has given up on my name, so he just calls me, 'Mundele', translated_ white man. We are both content.

  After about 25 minutes, I had almost reached my inbox when a young girl tripped over a cord and killed all our computers. We yelled at her. Most, hurled insults and verbally abused her quite badly. I didn't. Being caught up in the moment, I just yelled. I might add , that there is a strongly held heirarchy here and those at the bottom are subject to abuse. The lowest ranking person I have identified is a young priest in training: Even the night watchman sends him on errands. Unfortunately, the ranking even extends into the church. Us important people always get the best seats, totally allowing culture to trump scripture. I suppose we do that in our churches world wide. Wink says that in the Domination System, ranking is a must so that there are those who can be dominated.  As an aside, Michellin, a cleaning lady, noticed the photo of Walter Wink on the back of my book and remarked that he resembled me. I couldn't see it at first, but on reflection, apart from the hair colour, glass style difference and his lack of a beard, we could be doubles.

  Night came and I went to bed early. I was without drinking water, so went to bed without the sleeping pill Del had sent along _ I have since run out; and the heat is hard to sleep in- In any case, I awoke, hoping for about 5am. Looking up, Jesus was still on the cross so I realized it would be a long night. It was.

  More later.