Meeting some of the iLab students

"Hello my name is Yemi. What's your name? [Unintelligible answer]"


I wanted to use the internet and Josiah thought it would be good to introduce me to some of his fellow colleagues that were working in the lab even on a Saturday (we are still in the lab as of 8pm).  After we went through the usual introductions, I realised that I am either horrendous at pronouncing Tanzanian names or they just mumble their names. So far, I have met Kwame (no, he's not Ghanaian), Nassor, Godwin, Baraka and Isaac; Isaac and Godwin had to give me their English names because I had no shot on their native names.

I talked to Nassor about his project before I finally got to my real purpose: getting online so that I could contact my family for the first time since arrival and chatting with friends who happened to be awake (Tz is GMT+3; +8 from US East Coast). I was interrupted several times by others including Baraka and Josiah to give an overview of what I had done and help them with their projects. Once, a group of them gathered around me and listened to my big mouth flap continuously. In four continents and at least five countries, it is a known fact that I talk too much. My shrink is helping me out but until I'm cured, I hope to not add Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to that list.