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!