day 2. is it only day 2?

After a fairly good night's sleep our first night here, we got up bright and early for an 8:30 meeting. We don't have child care arrangements for Juma yet, so we had to bring him along to two meetings yesterday and one today. At the first meeting yesterday, we had to be on the guest list and go through crazy security. Juma wasn't on the guest list, so that caused a hullabaloo, but we eventually got in. We hooked up Juma with a book to read, and he sat in the corner while we did our thing.

This trip it totally different from any of our previous trips. Not only are we on the mainland instead of the islands, but we are working top-down with lots of organizations and government officials instead of at the grassroots, talking to villagers and hanging out at local shops. We're going from hotel to taxi to air-conditioned conference room to taxi to another air-conditioned conference room. We ate at restaurants that cost just as much as they do in the US. We have an actual budget with real money. We have incomes and job titles, and I handed out more business cards in the past two days than I ever have in total.

It's like we're grownups or something.

As we waited for a taxi today after a meeting, Juma put on an impromptu concert for our colleagues (from my department at school).