Holiday times

Hi all of you!

Time is rushing and I have trouble keeping up. It is nice having a bit of a holiday, but it's also nice having routines and knowing exactly what to do tomorrow. I am not my best today, up late all of the weekend nights, but I plan on catching up on sleep tonight anyway. This evening it is my cooking evening, so I think I'll be walking to the shops before going home just to pick up ingredients. Maria decided that she was tired of cooking every single evening, so we now all have one cooking evening each every week, except for Maria who has four. I am going to try to introduce more vegetarian dishes into their menu, which will be fun. The problem comes when zesa (the power) goes and we can't use the oven or microwave and only can use the gas stove.

When I came here we had no zesa cuts at all for nearly three months. Then we suddenly had every day, mostly in the afternoon up until around eight or nine. Now it's quite irregular, but still, sometimes it will be off the whole day, which is really irritating. But, this is Bulawayo so we make a plan. We work around it or just accept that some things will have to wait. And most people have a generator as well, but you can't run a whole house on that. And petrol isn't free either, though it is cheaper than Sweden.

I have now for two weeks had pain on and off in back, mostly on. So sick and tired of a dysfunctional body. Not sure why the pain is there and how it started, but it is there and makes it hard to sit or lie in one position for too long and I definitely can't carry as heavy stuff as I usually do. Anyway, this should be good motivation for me to start getting in shape again. Should be. In the mean time I enjoy the lovely chocolate that Peter brought me from Scotland. Ahhh, they really don't have the same stuff here. Another thing he brought was two pink dish-washing brushes which Maria loves.

Right, I need to move now, so toodeloo, I'll try to get back to you with stories of the Peter-visit-weeks soon. I've got more photos in queue on the tumblr now anyway. Miss you!

Just dropping by to say hi

I am, as so often nowadays when I get hold of internet, in a hurry. Too little time, too many things I need to and want to do. Answering emails, uploading photos, checking timetables, everything on a too slow connection. But then I have earned a whole heap more patience living here. Anyway. I had wanted to post a long thing about what I've been doing the last two weeks, but then I was busy with friends (!!!) all of Friday night until Sunday morning and then had a practice on Sunday afternoon, so I wasn't really in the mood for a lot of brain usage writing something interesting. But I'm thinking maybe tonight after I make dinner. Hopefully I will be bringing home a internet dongle-thingy to test if we have good signal at home, so you might see me on skype if it's possible this evening. Log in on skype this evening and see if I'm there, because if I am I want to have someone to talk to! But now I have to rush again. To try and get the internetthingy before they close. So bye bye! I have put some more photos in the queue on tumblr, so there should be stuff to look at there at least.