Hitting the ground running!!!

OK, so I am back in Uganda after having a lovely Christmas and new year with the family.
the journey back to Mbale was quite eventful as the main road to Mbale has been washed away in the rain so was not passable, so the we have a slight detour on the bus. a journey that should have taken 3 and half hours took 6 and half hours, needless to say when i go back i was shattered, 30 hours of traveling in total!! So i was very pleased to get home to a shower and a bed, so my first weekend back was just spent sleeping, the journey and all the festive activities had caught up with me!!

So on my first day back to work we opened the project again with 40 new girls turning up, so last week was pretty busy and seems like its not slowing down.
I am now constantly being asked about me leaving, why do i have to go? what am i going to do next? when will i come back here next? all questions i have no answer for, feels like my time is ticking by here very quickly, am meant to start wrapping up my work in the next month or so. I only have 14 weeks left, crazy!!

Things are all changing here again friends wise, seems to be a constant theme here, one of my neighbours, Jonathan left on Saturday for good and my other one Katarina goes in two weeks, it is still uncertain what will happen to me, whether i can stay in my house, i should find out in the next week or so. I really hope i can stay as i really can be bothered to pack up all my stuff and move this late in the day.

I normally don't make new year resolutions but it seems this year i have, when i was back i was looking at some photos of myself and it made me realise how much weight i have put on since i have been here, mad really that you move to an African country and put weight on! well the main problem is the main content of the diet is carbs and everything is fried. So I am now on a serious diet, I take my salad with me for lunch, (lettuce that i have grown in my garden!) and am not eating anything Ugandan, doing my new yogalates DVD and cycling the longer, uphill route to work, so I await the results, a skinny Jess hopefully!!!

Also i think i have a Bermuda triangle following me as, i have lost my radio, there are not my hiding places in my small house. I have my suspicions that one of the night guards at the house may have taken it as i leave in my kitchen which is separate to the main house and i often leave it unlocked when i am in the main house and yesterday i have lost my bible in church, was in my bag and now its not! spooky!