Perhaps today I’m suffering from prolonged understimulation. My energy level is low, I feel a bit down and completely unmotivated. I’ve managed better than I would have expected, with effectively being unemployed for four weeks now. At home when I’m teaching, what often keeps me going is adrenalin topped up by caffeine. Here I’ve had no demands made of me and I’m as un-adrenalised as I’ve been in a long time. Too much stress in response to a perceived over-demand is not good, but not enough demand is no better. I spent most of today at Debub College (Gill’s college) trying to involve myself in Gill’s work. My minimal contribution required a lot of mental energy, and I gave up and went home during the afternoon. Fiona (another VSO vol) called and suggested my salt intake is too low. I never add salt to my food, which might explain my tiredness and lack of energy. I’ve tested the theory with an extra-salty bowl of noodles with lots of soy sauce. Kill or cure.

The humidity has been high today, which hasn’t helped. This evening, we’re experiencing an incredible thunderstorm and torrential rain. The lightening is amazing.

More news from Debub College this morning. As well as the two children killed at the PIN school on Friday, a teenager was shot dead by police at a high school on the same day. How can a government even try and describe itself as democratic when its police respond to protests by shooting people?!