The Witch Doctor

About a week before I got here, one of the school laptops was stolen. This was devastating because there are only about 10 working laptops (with various problems). The one that was stolen was the teaching laptop, aka the best one with all of the lesson plans, tests, and exams on it. On Monday there was a huge meeting with all of the students, volunteers and staff (gardiner, night watch man, cleaning lady and cook) to try to figure out what had happened. Three possibilities came out:

-One of the students took it early in the morning
-The night watchman took it at some point during the night or morning
-Our cleaning lady took it

The conversation got quite heated and everyone was given one week to figure out what had happened.  It's kind of scary because thiefs that are caught in Tanzania are usually beaten quite badly (sometimes until they die). The laptop is probably already sold so we're not going to get it back but it's important to find out who stole it to make sure they are not allowed back in the school and given other opportunities to steal.

Anyways, the students decided that they would all put their money together so that a few of them could travel to Arusha, a city about an hour away. They came up with a list of suspects and are going to give that list to a couple of witch doctors to see what answer they come up with. We're kind of concerned about what will happen if the witch doctors name an inoccent person but stay tuned........