T plus 1 mois, 5 jours
i've sent in samples to megavoice, but as of yet no response, that of course was only this last weekend, i sent in 16, 15-second samples, it took me just less than two hours on friday afternoon in bobo at a nice air conditioned internet cafe, oh yeah, and about that, i ended up returning home on saturday morning rather than friday night ...
the plan was to come back by the last bus on friday evening, the 6:00, home by 7:30, however, susan (the fulbright scholar from john's hopkins doing research here in burkina and staying at the mission) was returning the states and was meeting friends for pizza and invited the flemings and myself, this was at 7 and so this would mean i would have to stay the night in bobo and return the next morning; i hadn't decided for sure whether i would stay and so at the time when we got on the bus it still stood with the family that i would return that evening, therefore, to get a message to felix, i wrote "if i wasn't back by supper time i will have stayed in bobo for the night and will return in the morning" on a piece of paper, folded it into a paper airplane and threw it out the window as we passed the walkway to the house, i wasn't sure if felix would receive the message and so i figured that i would call pascal and have him deliver a message to felix if i decided to stay; i ended up staying, as you know, and tried to contact pascal but couldn't reach him, thus i remained in bobo and decided to return home on a bus the next morning; i returned on the 10:00 and got home about 11:30, i discovered that felix had received my message earlier that morning and had thus known what i had done, he had figured that i wouldn't be able to get home friday evening because the bus would be full of people coming to the market the next day and so figured i had stayed with the flemings; God is a worker of miracles and somehow got the message to the house and to felix, and i can even put it on my resume as real world experience with airplanes
donna and kay are working on muffling the echo in the recording room of the studio with egg cartons, 500 of them arrived on saturday form bobo and are sitting in my "office" as we speak waiting to be hung on the walls and ceiling
i've got a few things to find in the market tomorrow, so that should be fun, actually going to the market with a purpose rather than just looking around and seeing what's available
my place/job/various tasks in the megavoice project clicked the other day when donna and i were talking about the various source material that she had for me, i had read the process for cleaning audio and now was seeing the material and the future of my work here, my job is clear and it looks like fun, especially because i get to work with nice, new studio, building and equipment
i've sent in samples to megavoice, but as of yet no response, that of course was only this last weekend, i sent in 16, 15-second samples, it took me just less than two hours on friday afternoon in bobo at a nice air conditioned internet cafe, oh yeah, and about that, i ended up returning home on saturday morning rather than friday night ...
the plan was to come back by the last bus on friday evening, the 6:00, home by 7:30, however, susan (the fulbright scholar from john's hopkins doing research here in burkina and staying at the mission) was returning the states and was meeting friends for pizza and invited the flemings and myself, this was at 7 and so this would mean i would have to stay the night in bobo and return the next morning; i hadn't decided for sure whether i would stay and so at the time when we got on the bus it still stood with the family that i would return that evening, therefore, to get a message to felix, i wrote "if i wasn't back by supper time i will have stayed in bobo for the night and will return in the morning" on a piece of paper, folded it into a paper airplane and threw it out the window as we passed the walkway to the house, i wasn't sure if felix would receive the message and so i figured that i would call pascal and have him deliver a message to felix if i decided to stay; i ended up staying, as you know, and tried to contact pascal but couldn't reach him, thus i remained in bobo and decided to return home on a bus the next morning; i returned on the 10:00 and got home about 11:30, i discovered that felix had received my message earlier that morning and had thus known what i had done, he had figured that i wouldn't be able to get home friday evening because the bus would be full of people coming to the market the next day and so figured i had stayed with the flemings; God is a worker of miracles and somehow got the message to the house and to felix, and i can even put it on my resume as real world experience with airplanes
donna and kay are working on muffling the echo in the recording room of the studio with egg cartons, 500 of them arrived on saturday form bobo and are sitting in my "office" as we speak waiting to be hung on the walls and ceiling
i've got a few things to find in the market tomorrow, so that should be fun, actually going to the market with a purpose rather than just looking around and seeing what's available
my place/job/various tasks in the megavoice project clicked the other day when donna and i were talking about the various source material that she had for me, i had read the process for cleaning audio and now was seeing the material and the future of my work here, my job is clear and it looks like fun, especially because i get to work with nice, new studio, building and equipment
posted by i.entz at 2:39:00 PM
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Hi Isaac,
Guess what! The children's Thanksgiving offering at church is going to be for those solar powered tape players used in the villages. We wanted a project that had something to do with people we know, and so now the kids will be thinking about you a lot this next month.
I'm very much enjoying your blog. I didn't get to this last entry right away and Tim keeps asking me if I've read it yet. I guess that means he is really enjoying it too!
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