I'd been advised that on Friday and Monday mornings the department I'm working in has a get-together with motivational speaking and prayers in Setswana. This sort of this is usually wasted on me, even in English, so I thought I'd duck out of it by turning up 5 minutes late. Unfortunately, that back-fired on me because the meetings are held in the lobby...

Anyway, I stood (sheepishly) through about 15 minutes of impassioned discussion the only two words of which I understood were 'English media' and then the Lord's prayer, in Setswana. It turned out that they were talking about the need to keep drugs out of their children's schools although quite what our media have to do with that I'm not sure.

BK, one of the Skillshare staff here, and I were talking about the AIDS crisis here and she told me how cultural issues were the biggest barrier to getting the epidemic under control. This came home to me quite forcibly today when I noticed that although loo rolls can't be left unguarded the free condoms in the toilet are apparently untouched.

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