Happy Valentine’s Day! Valentine’s Day is alive and well here, in Mozambique. It’s called ‘Dia de Namorados’ and everyone is really concerned that I can’t be with my fake namorado today. (He’s so far away, you need someone here, too!) Becky and I are celebrating tonight with a Beer Pong party because we found ping pong balls randomly in a store. Our friend Molly is visiting, and we are going to teach our other Mozambican friend the wonders of this American tradition.

School is going pretty well, all things considered. We just have 18 classes a week, which is nice, in 6 different classes. The kids get excited about the tiniest experiments (ie, paper inside a cup doesn’t get wet when you plunge it into a bucket of water because air takes up space and is matter!), so that’s really fun to see. I don’t know if they’re learning much or able to understand me, but we’ll see next week because we have our first test already! That will be interesting. Considering we still haven’t ever taken attendance or have an official list of who is in what class.