Not much to tell...

Hi everyone,

just wanted to write a brief update even though i don't feel like there's that much to tell, not that that's ever stopped me before :-p

the last couple of weeks i've been dividing my time between helping with the new DTS and the work in Mbiko. DTS involved mainly joining in with the staff prayer meetings and spending time getting to know the students, sitting in on their classes and introductions and joining in with their work duty and games. i've also managed to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen as usual...how does that always happen?! at least i know what i'm doing there - it's nice to have one familiar job in the midst of all the chaos!
most of the Mbiko work has been meetings for discussing what's going on, making a schedule and writing a newsletter (still not completed! it involves photos...need i say more?!) although i did get to meet 3 other girls last thurs and learnt to make paper beads for necklaces. it was fun! next week should be more active on the Mbiko side and less with DTS - i'm looking forward to that, to getting to spend more time with the girls and getting to know them, as it's supposed to be my primary commitment.

one fun thing i got to do last weekend was have a "german day" and experience Austria in the middle of Uganda! i made friends with a German girl called Monika who's one of the South Africa DTS team doing outreach on Namiti, one of the Buvuma Islands (out in Lake Victoria) and she invited me to meet her friends from her home church, who are working in Mukono (on the way to Kampala). The friends are a retired couple working with an Austrian/German project that's building schools - they already have a big primary school and vocational training schools for carpentry, brickmaking/building, pottery and tailoring. The place is beautifully laid out and maintained, and the staff house is even decorated Austrian-style, complete with a wooden dining table and corner benches...and the husband is a baker, there to help build the bakery, and he gave us some fresh-baked "Nusszopf" (sweet nut stollen-type bread) which is my favourite!! it was so fun getting to speak german for a whole day, to meet such lovely people and to experience the beautiful setting...a great cure for homesickness!!

ok, that's all for now or i'll be late back yet again...and i want to get all my little jobs done tonight so i can relax tomorrow!

hope y'all are well,

love alex : )