Wednesday June 27, 2007

Today I woke up to the sound of rain beating on the tin roof-so I went back to sleep. People aren’t kidding when they say nothing gets started in Africa until the rain stops (I think it is like St. Helens and the snow ). After it stopped the sun came out and it was actually a really beautiful day.

We walked to work and dropped off Joe at the hospital again on the way to the office. I finished all my research for my seminar on ‘Positive Living’ presentation, and what I would like to do now is make visuals to go along with it and translate some of it so people will understand what is going on, but I don’t know if that is in our means.

After that Festus had me type up the “VOLSET Annual 2006 Report” which would have been fine, except the power went out half way through (luckily I was constantly saving it, because I figured something like that would happen) so I had to wait a couple hours before I could finish it (the office really really needs a generator).

After lunch I decided to tackle the VOLSET Resource Library (which was a ton of books, pamphlets, magazines, and stray papers haphazardly shoved onto a bunch of shelves). It took me a good 4 hours but I did it! I’m actually pretty proud of myself, I wasn’t sure it was possible.

Me and Joe at the office (when I decided to organize the library and I am sorting out all the materials)

Tomorrow (and this weekend hopefully) I am going to start filming and taking pictures around the village. We are also supposed to paint the house, and I am supposed to go to the secondary school to sit in on the English class again. Should be a hoot.