Wow I have been a bad bad blogger. It has been months. Well, first I went to South Africa and met up with my family. We all went to Kruger Park and saw many yummy animals. In fact it was almost too many animals. I felt like I was on a movie set. Every time we turned around there was an elephant or a zebra or lions bathing themselves in the sunshine. The highlights were the family of lions (one baby was 2 weeks old) who were warming themselves on the asphalt when we drove around the first morning. The morning walks were THE BEST. You have to get up at 4am but then you go into the bush with two guides with big guns. The sun comes up and you’re in the African bush with zebras, wildebeest, and giraffes all around you. There are hippos, lion tracks, tons of dung beetles…soooooo cool!!!!!!!
Then my sister and I came back up to Beira. We went out to a beach “resort” and jumped in the Indian Ocean and then came back and holed up in my house with the aircon on. Sadly one of the assistants in my program died while she was here and I went to the funeral. At the funeral (the first time I had seen my coworkers since being on vacation) everyone started demanding work related things and so the next day, right after dropping my sister off at the airport, I went back to work.
Work is going better and I’m starting to get all my different tasks under control. It helps that I’ve carved out a little space to work and organize all my piles of stuff. I’m going to make a detailed chart of all the projects I need to get done this weekend. By Monday I should be the most organized person ever. I’ve also moved all of my dissertation stuff to the office so I can start working on that next week.
Ok so this is just a general update. I’ll describe more of what it is like here in the next blog.
One more thing—there have been devastating floods and a cyclone here in Moz (I’m fine—they are not here). If you feel the need to donate something please see:
http://www.redcross.org.mz/
Anything would help and an American dollar goes a long way here.
Peace, M
