While their Swahili classes are well above my price range, the school down the street also offers aerobics classes twice a week for a very reasonable $1.50.  So yesterday I slipped on my oversized conservative spandex capris and headed over.  The workout was about as rigorous as the one time I did water exercise with my grandma in Boca.  Not that I wasn’t sweating, for the record, but I sweat pretty much everywhere in this country…even in the shower…and there’s normally not hot water.  Even though the workout was rather lame, the group leader did count in Swahili, so I’m considering this a success because it was pretty much like taking the first class of Swahili 101 without paying the $800. 

So I think that makes the official tally, Kraut: 1.5 Africa: 1,493.  I’m catching up.  Watch out, suckers!