Our University placements are slowly coming together. If all goes according to plan, Emily's main placement will be at the Omderman Islamic University and mine will be at the University of the holy Quran and Islamic studies. Should be interesting. I will also be teaching at the Univeristy of Khartoum for a couple hours each week.

The money situation here is very confusing. They have recently switched from the Pound to the Dinar and finally to the Sudanese Pound. There is no difference, besides the number of zeros. It becomes difficult though, because most people still talk in terms of the original Pound and the new Sudanese Pound is not really in circulation yet. What ends up happening is that when someone says that something costs 1000 Dinars, they actually mean 100 (the equivalent of 50 Cents).

A friend of mine is teaching English to a group of soldiers who come from both the Rebel groups and the Government forces. It is part of the peace agreement, which allows the opposing factions to interact with eachother and hopefully facilitate the peace process. The problem is that they all bring thier guns to school. My friend didn't know that this was a common practice, so on the first day of class he freaked out when the opposing soldiers walked into the room with Rocket Launchers and AK47s!