7.05 pm

The highlight of the last two days has most definitely been going to the Lubanga trial. I promise I won't go into the boring details, for all the non-lawyers reading. The important thing is that this trial is going to set the stage for the future of international criminal trials in many ways. The international community is really still in the baby-steps phase of this whole thing, so it will be interesting to see what lessons from the previous tribunals have (and have not) been learned. Other than that work is going well - they're keeping me on my toes. I'm learning that government lawyers tend to work the same sorts of hours as BigLaw lawyers - long! They're good about letting me keep to an eight hour day. Which is nice, because I need to start working on my writing requirement soon. And of course, I'd like to pretend that I can have a life and be in law school at the same time.

7.11 pm

In non-law news, I went to my second pancake dinner with the kids here. It seems to be the meal of choice - I think because it's easy to make, and sweet. The don't actually make pancakes, it's more like crepes. Tonight the choice of toppings was chocolate, white chocolate, bananas, syrup, and some sort of cherry jelly thing that was gone before I got there. When I got home, there was a note that one of the Spanish boys had slipped under my door, saying that since he always invited me to breakfast and never made it, he was inviting me to a dinner he was making tonight. So I thanked him for the pancakes when I sat down - and everyone started laughing, because one of the girls had made them. His punishment for claiming credit for the dinner? Washing all the dishes.