TAN: Sandrine Off, Kamau In

Up at 6 a.m. yet again. Puttered with the computer until the others stirred. We headed over to Kiriako to get some breakfast at the Royal Chef. I had some chapattis and peas. Delicious. Spent the rest of the morning at the DTP office working on the team pages for the Pixel Corps website. Alex Fox came by with the new iBook he picked up in Dubai. I spent some time going over it with him. Eventually he had to head back downstairs for a meeting with Hanif and Jack.
Our group headed back to the Royal Chef of a quick bite of lunch. After we got back to the office it was time for Sandrine to depart. We bundled her into a cab and wished her Bon Voyage. We were to learn later that she had been hustled for some cash over exceeding the weight limit. The check in clerk initially indicated that she would have to pay an additional $450 for her overage. When she balked, the price dropped by half and kept dropping throughout the discussion. At one point the clerk suggested that Sandrine could get some new souvenirs from the duty free shops and bring them on as carry-on. As the negotiation continued, Sandrine decided that she would rather just leave the things rather than paying the amount on the table at that point. This seemed to throw the clerk off guard and Sandrine was able to get going for less than $100.
Alex returned in the afternoon for some more lessons. I went over hooking up his new digital camera and working with iPhoto as well as using iMovie with his new miniDV camera. Shafiq called us downstairs to talk about having us build a website for DTP. His timetable is quite short with the site being due on January 1st.
In the early evening the internet connection died completely. This curtailed getting the completed team pages up for testing on the web. Maina’s brother Kamau was due at the Scandinavian bus depot at 8 p.m. There was some communication problems and Kamau finally called around 8:30 p.m. We collected him and headed over to their cousins house for some dinner. There were some potatoes and a tomato and onion salad I could eat. The rest of the meal with meat heavy. Finally called it quits around 10:30 p.m.