Yesterday I went to Mozambique, and it took me forever to find the embassy. I walked past it about, oh, 30 million times. Finally I asked a security guard in another building and she told me right where to find it (next to the McDonald's). Yep, there it was, in plain sight, very obvious. (It's actually in the this big office building and is just a small suite in there. It interests me when embassies are like that vs the huge ones down on Embassy Row.)

Also, Paul, guess what restaurant it's just down the street from?

So I went up to the embassy and I actually rode up on the elevator with the financial attache, and we had a conversation. He asked me if I had an appointment, and I said no...but I could come make one? And come back another day? He asked me why I wanted an internship and I explained that I study international politics (not a good idea to say to a foreign country that you want to work for them because you study international security...) and I speak brazilian portuguese but I want to speak African Portuguese as well. He told me they are the same thing, and then said some things in portuguese to me that I absolutely could not understand, even though they were simple things -- proving to me that they are NOTHING alike, because I can understand most brazilian speakers unless they have really heavy accents from certain parts of the country. But cariocas and mineiros are easy for me (probably because those are the brazilians I know best).

Anyways, turns out that this guy was the only one working that day. (Ambassadors get days off? I mean, Fridays?)

So he told me to email the embassy and set up an appointment...when I got back to campus I saw Pedro and he told me to just email the ambassador directly and she would give me a job. But I don't exactly have the email for the ambassador, so I have to take my chances with this general email, an AOL account that they may not even check. (Sarah says Georgia never checked their hotmail account. You'd think that these places would have .govs or something, but no.)

Well today I am doing laundry, yay. I way should have done it 2 weeks ago. And ran 2 miles this morning. Yay. I was tired. But I did it! Tomorrow I think 1.75, and then I will jump up higher on Tuesday. Right now I am going to go put my laundry in the dryer, send a letter to Johanna (I STILL can't figure out how to get my mailbox open, so I hope all you guys have been sending me mail cause then it will be fun to have a deluge of love that spills all over me when I finally get it open (and tape it that way because I know I will never be able to do it again), and then I am going to get trained in for my new job.

Well, bye!