Spam and Cheese sandwich as I continue to cut into my stockpile of care package items.
Clemson continues to roll and is at home this week against UNC. The real high is I get to throw it in Matt Boddie's face next week at mid-service. Don't worry buddy, basketball season will be here soon.
Attempt 2 at the final piece of my Halloween costume was successful. I'll go into more detail of this venture and the mistake I made at a later time, with pictures and a great Jenny quote.
Lows:
Friday morning I woke and found the loaf of bread I had purchased 36 hours earlier had molded over. I screamed, "I HATE UGANDA," and then proceeded to cut the moldy crust off and make toast.*
Don't judge.
*The picture is not my actual bread. It was just a little fuzz on the crust.
Don't judge.
What I Did:
Procured a bunch of sawdust from a sawmill in Masaka. Answered some follow up questions sent by Engineers Without Borders. Transferred our financial records for the quarter into excel. Started preparing the monthly report for next Tuesday's meeting. Followed up with the secondary school for on Camp Build and Glow applications. Taught my weekly lifeskills class. Played soccer with the kids at my school after they made me promise to at lifeskills.
What Is On The Agenda:
Busy busy Monday. On Monday I plan to construct a mud-stove at my site in our kitchen, teach a lifeskills lesson, and finalize all the info for my orgs monthly meeting which is on Tuesday.
Tuesday it is off to Masaka for my group's Mid-Service Conference.
I've been semi responsible for planning this conference but have been doing so over email with Ugandans so my success or failure is going to rely mostly on game time execution. Here, the best laid plans of mice and men sometimes go awry, that is in the rare instances when they aren't ignored, lost, mis-understood, forgotten, circumvented, or sabotaged by a Ugandan.
Friday it is off to Jinja... my favorite place in this country.
Sanity Meter:
Sane. But I've got a monthly meeting coming up with my org, and even though I'm pretty steady lately my fuse is pretty short when it comes to dealing with them.
Ugandan Annoyance of the Month!!!
Deputy Headmaster Dan
He's getting his very own blog post in the near future. I hope I can get a picture of him.
What I'm Reading:
Finished Stieg Larson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. I liked the first book best but enjoyed the series. I think the Stieg Larson books are all a bit overhyped, but they are decent reads.
Am trying to knock out the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" prior to mid-service but have just been too busy lately, which is really going to hurt my average. Also I don't want to lug the 600+ page book around the country for a week so I think I'll start some of my Vonnegut while at mid-service.
Clemson Prediction of the Week:
Clemson 42, UNC 31
also... Sammy Watkins reveals in the post game press conference that he can fly... but just hasn't needed to yet.
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