It would seem that the fighting in Kotra is effecting us more than I realised. The government office that we need to take our school application to within two months is on that town, so our advocate is unwilling to go at the moment. We will have to see how that works out.

On the way home on the motorbike this evening we came across a group of people, five or six, walking in the road like desparados or something. That isn’t unusual in itself, but they didn’t clear to the side when they saw the bike, and one actually tried to block my path then grabbed my arm as I scooted around him. They might have just been drunkards, but nothing confrontational has ever happened to me before in the area. What annoyed me wasn’t the event itself but my innitial reaction to it; what if they had been incensed by the happenings in Kotra, and were ready to pick a fight with anyone that wasn’t ‘one of their own’? It’s impossible to tell but the answer is almost certainly not. It illustrates very well though what I was talking about in a previous post, how negative actions can so easily negatively influence our perspective of future events if we don’t watch our reactions carefully. I have two choices: either consider it related to Kotra and so forever feel a little more tense in the area, be a little less open with people and a little less trusting or I can just say it was a bunch of drunk guys acting stupid and that is that. Choosing the first option will only degrade my experiences and future friendship, while the second leaves me far more open to all furture possible positive things, so it would be foolish to allow the actions of Kotra to have any influence on how I speak, think and deal with people at all