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<\/a><\/p>\nUp about 6:15, the roosters were making a huge amount of noise. \u00a0I am on the 4th floor (5th if you count how we do in the US). \u00a0No elevator. \u00a0Dragging my book bag and a 43 pound duffle up the stairs last night isn’t something that I want to repeat. \u00a0Took a few photos of the bedroom window in the early sunlight. \u00a0The haze is actually pollution. \u00a0Did breakfast with the team and back up to the room to get ready for the day. \u00a0We are spending tonight in the same hotel so I do not need to pack everything up. \u00a0Got the internet connected to the wifi, but it only works in the lobby. \u00a0Traded a handful of text messages with Antje and even got one from Josh. \u00a0His number changed again. \u00a0Off to our first destination, picking up solar panels and dropping them off at MBP (Madagascar Biodiversity Project). \u00a0Just watching the driving here is insane. \u00a0The roundabouts are packed with a gazillion cars, push carts, scooters, and bikes. \u00a0I don’t understand why I didn’t see major crashes all over the place. \u00a0From there it was off to lunch. \u00a0There was a kitten with an eye infection that gave it a very strange look. \u00a0It figured out we had food and kept asking for some. \u00a0I gave him a small piece of steak. \u00a020 minutes later, I did the same thing to its mother. \u00a0After lunch, it was off to a big store, something like Wallmart. \u00a0The kids got to wander off, but I was working on getting the cell phone data plan to work with my iPad. \u00a0Picked up a SIM card at one store and took it to another store to be trimmed down. \u00a0Took it back to the first store and after a bit of confusion and got the data plan set up. \u00a0The SIM card cost 1,500 Ariary. \u00a0That is only about $0.68 for the card. \u00a0The one gig for one month cost 45,000 or $20.46 at the exchange rate we used (1$=2,200 Ariary). \u00a0To actually put the plan on the card, it needed to be placed into a cell phone and loaded that way. \u00a0Got it working and we headed back to the hotel. \u00a0Moving around this place always seems to take a very long time. \u00a0Got back to the room about 6pm and traded text messages with Antje. \u00a0Joined some of the team about 6:45 and everybody was there by 7:00. \u00a0I had spaghetti and meatballs for dinner followed by a bit of chocolate ice cream. Back at almost 9pm for another exchange of text messages and to work on my journal. Up about 6:15, the roosters were making a huge amount of noise. \u00a0I am on the 4th floor (5th if you count how we do in the US). \u00a0No elevator. \u00a0Dragging my book bag and a 43 pound duffle up the stairs last night isn’t something that I want to repeat. \u00a0Took a few … Continue reading “July 5th 2013 First Day in Madagascar”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madagascar2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
\nA bit more work and to bed about 10:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"