Sleepless in Sana'a Part 2

Sooo.. having established tha main cause of my sleepless nights, that being Lucifer, the skanky white dog, the update report on that story is that I've since slept six hours.. and the dog, is still barking, and skankier than ever. However life is too short to dwell on such futile matters...(yeah right..try not sleeping properly for a few weeks then get back to me on the futile statement)..however, there are more pressing updates to be told, such as the Graphics class. A couple of days ago I uploaded some pics of my students up on facebook. Things are going great, They are a delightful bunch to teach. All of them Somali and all have it made it to Yemen after a miraculous boat trip here ( Please watch a documentary called Martyrs Of Aden if you get a chance to get an understanding of how understated the term "miraculous" is , and all have been given the opportunity to study for free under the dictatorial hand of the white slave master, which is.. well... me.
So we meet everyday at Succeed for a three hour class, and we all struggle together against the various adversities one must face when in a computer lab in a developing country. These being...VIRUSES... each computer has more viruses plaguing its 3 dollar hardware system than a hospital ward would have during the outbreak of a Viral pandemic. Which of course slow down the already slow pc's that the museum kindly donated to the centre after realizing that they are too pre historic to put on show. The motto in class being, "to work faster, pedal faster!". On top of that we fight the good fight against the lazy, Qut chewing I.T guy who doesnt seem to realize that the money he is given as salary is not given due to his charming looks, which arent actually charming, but are given on an understanding that he should carry out some I.T work. Basic things such as...installing anti viruses to keep the defunct computers from frying out completely, and .. halas...to installing photoshop and Illustrator on each p.c. The aforementioned tasks were given to him at the beginning of the course one month ago, and so far, he finally completed one of those tasks yesterday, being the installation of both programs. So far we managed to pull through by using a version of photoshop that was released in 400 BC, and used as a protoype tool to facilitate the writing of hieroglyphics in the pharaoh's palace. This also worked on a pedal faster technique, and it also had to be re installed every class because of an anti freeze program on the computers that wiped everything off each time the computer is re started. So, yesterday, when we arrived in class to discover the installation of a recent and permanent version, we all broke into a jubilation of songs, dancing and rejoicing at the possibility of being as cool as the kids overseas. After all, the I.T guy wasnt such a tough nut to crack. He eventually broke down after I pulled his nails out one by one and had him slapped around by a large arab guy, all while he was tied to a chair in a secret desert outpost with a light dangling over his bruised and swollen head. But Halas!, we now have the programs...and a few more beatings should be all that is needed to get the anti viruses installed . Or maybe a couple of night sleeps at my house in the company of lucifer, the skanky white dog are all that is needed.