Too many eggs in the basket :-)

Time goes very fast as usual but nothing is running out of it for me right now at the same time. My patience and endurance here in Eritrea is paying off. I have been conducting my own research about nation-building in the country for some time. I have also studied some basic Arabic in the short time I have been here. I am currently working to fix a driving license too.


I am also engaged in a short project held by the ministry of health which tries to update the general situation for Malaria in Eritrea. We are trying to study the socio-cultural patterns among all the nine groups of people of the country in terms of their use of bed nets and tendencies to seek early treatment once affected by mosquitoes. We are interested in the change of behaviours or lack of it. What factors lie behind peoples ‘approach to Malaria, seen from an anthropological perspective is the main question?

Teaching “sociology of education” at SMAP College here in Asmara is in my calendar too. I shall start doing that in a few months time but I have to prepare the entire student material on my own which is very exciting and mesmerizing. Too many eggs in the basket right now but they do not have to be fetched simultaneously. I love it anyways.

By the way, I am quite used to the life here in Eritrea now to the degree that I sometimes miss the power cuts which still occur but it is much better than before. I feel it is a relief from constantly updating ourselves from TV and other electronic apparatus.