Christmas day

This is our christmas breakfast at the house



Then we went on the church were the sunday school performed an amazing nativity helped by the GAT team, they are being sheep and a shepard going to see Jesus!


Then it was off to the resort hotel for lunch, just before this though I had a phone call from home to say that Nat, my sister has got engaged to Mike, great news! So we went to the hotel for lunch, there was about 20 of us and had a swim.
















This is me, in my african outfit and claire.
It was a very different day but i really enjoyed it and even felt abit christmassy!

christmas eve

This was the party I went to on christmas eve in a village near where I live. It was at Grace and Vincents, they decided they were going to try and feed as many people in their village as possible, they fed over 100 people that afternoon. Very cool!!

Grace and Vincent (amazing people)

Christmas and all that

It has been along time, it you want the finer details of my life then I think most people that read this should have got my newsletter, it is long but bear with it and you might find something interesting in it.
this is me by our Christmas tree in the house, I am finding it very hard to feel Christmassy when it is so hot, even all the carol singing isn't doing it, I guess it doesn't help that all the carols are about winter cold things and I am melting due to extreme heat! Thinking about it though the very first Christmas must have been in the blazing heat, I think it is hot in Bethlehem! (please correct me if I am wrong!) the thought that it is was hot when Jesus turned up on earth makes being here seem abit more christmassy and the real thing not the commercial one!
lots has happen since I last blogged so will do a very brief run down
- I had a good time in Kampala, loved Harry potter and still would like to be a witch not quiet sure how that would go down at church though!!
- went to an IDP (internally displaced persons) camp and am planning to help organise some work in this camp monthly
- project going well, should be started by middle of Jan, interviewed for the programme co ordinator post yesterday, had some good interviews with people, working out today who we will short list for the next interview, good stuff
- going to lots of parties obviously related to Christmas, went to a great party by a lovely couple from India, so the real Indian food, and am now suffering with very bad wind!!
-I think I may have a wart on my thumb, nice!!
-best news is a very good friend of mine is coming here for Christmas and new year and we are going on holiday afterwards, more about that another time. I am looking forward to Clare coming on Friday, hooray
-in just over a months time my mum and dad will be here!! Am very excited!!!
well I best get one with some work, will update soon on how my Christmas feeling is going!

chaos theory!

I left Mbale at 6am this morning on the very speedy bus and arrived in the smog that is Kampala. I am down here for meetings which so far have gone very well and the most exciting thing is that I am going to see Harry Potter tonight at the cinema!! What a treat!
this picture sums up what Kampala is like, this is the bus park where I came into, chaotic, busy and full to the brim, but one kind of exciting thing has just happened in all this chaos, we have had an earthquake here!! It cant of been a big one at all as me and my friend didn't even notice, we just thought loads of workers where being let home early, random hey! No damage to the city but a little bit more drama, the way I like it!

i feel wide awake!

after about 3 hours sleep, i feel great!! i have that husty voice thing going on and just quite a rough look about me, have got loads of work to do so just have to plod on!
i had an interesting but quite stupid conversation last night while i was out, the question was, do you think a chicken and a duck could reproduce? would it be able to swim? would it cheep or quack or somewhere inbetween, we decided that if it was possible then it should be called a chuk! would be interesting to see what it would look like? anyone good at drawing then send me a picture! i think the lack of sleep is going to my head!

It 3.42 am and I am wide awake!!

Hello everyone, well as you may see by the title I am wide awake and it is very early in the morning, not what I really want to be doing. We went out for a leaving dinner for some Canadian girls last night, this restaurant does very good coffee and I stupidly drunk 2 and bit cups last night thinking I don't ever have trouble sleeping!!! I stupid I was, I am now wide awake and about a million thoughts going around my head and everyone else is sound asleep in the house. Good job I have a blog hey!
am not sure what to do not sure what to do now, need to think of ways of making myself very sleepy, might read a work related book, I have written a big list with the aim of trying to clear my head which has helped, might walk lots round the living area to tire myself out, might be abit too noisy, what else can I do? umm, maybe thinking of ideas might make me sleepy! I don't think I am at my most decisive in the middle of the night!!
any way sweet dreams to all, maybe I can count sheep or chickens to be more African!!!
good night!