des nuages

des nuages
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the chemistry teacher and i spent the morning preparing a periodic chart to replace the one that never existed for the chemistry students. we wanted to make five of them, but we ran out of glue. i had breakfast at his house and called the principal to tell him i would not be coming for breakfast. he insisted, so i ate a second breakfast and turned on the computer in his house to confirm that the hard drive was broken. the physics teacher and i spent the better part of friday getting an old pentium computer up and running. he was excited to learn the various functions of microsoft excel. we tried out some old 386 computers that had no chance of working but i had to keep up the positive attitude while one of the students used a program to learn to type. some of the children speak french but most people only speak pidgin and nweh. leaving this morning his daughter carried the 20 kilos of plantains i bought the day before as an exercise to amuse myself and bargain for fun calling the boy over to the bar as he carried him down the street. the plantains wouldn't fit in the clando (a four door 80's model sedan holding about ten passengers and their luggage), so they got thrown on the back of a pickup going in the same direction. i had to wait around an hour for the truck to arrive, since it went slower so as not to throw out the passengers standing in the back