Currently...

...very busy which is why we are getting a bit slack on blog entries. My work permit came through so and spend all morning and bits of the afternoon and evening working.

Enjoying: The rain. This seems to be coming steadily everyday at the moment. The children love it and as soon as the drops come down they take off all their clothes and run outside shrieking with delight. They can spend hours (literally) dancing in the rain and playing in all the mud that it produces. For the Tanzanians owever, the rain has come too late and many of them say they will have no harvest this year. For us it also means lots of power cuts. As soon as the rain comes on the power goes off. We have all our candles in strategic places and we have an automatic process to switch into power cut mode.

Not enjoying: The fact that we have no water in the bathroom and are having to fill up buckets to flush the toilet. Hopefully it will be fixed tomorrow.

Watching: Alias season 3, McLeods Daughters season 7 and House season 1. That looks like all we do is watch DVDs!!!

Reading: The autobiography of Patricia St. John (Daniel). Actually a recommendation from me that he took up. I am sort of reading Fan Tan by Marlon Brando, but only because I have nothing else to read. I am not really enjoying it and need to find some more books.

Praying about: We have kind of started a home church in our house. It meets intermittently at the moment because we are all involved in other churches, but it’s good when it happens. We are praying about the way forward for this.

Wishing for: Nice chicken (again), although we discovered that the fish you buy here is a bit like chicken. A crisp, cold, day with blue skies.

Planning: Caleb’s 4th birthday party on Saturday. We came to Tanzania when he was one, so for him this is home. Last week he announced that he wants to climb Kilimanjaro!! Well he’s been on safari more than once; been to Zanzibar; been snorkelling over a coral reef, flown in a Cessna 208; eaten dinner by candlelight on a beach; met a Maasai; climbed all the trees in compound B; swims like a fish. It’s the logical next step for a 4 year old. What he really wants for his birthday is a skateboard. Unfortunately there is nowhere in Dodoma to Skateboard. Everywhere the ground is hard and bumpy.

Daniel is planning all sorts of things at work, and is sometimes out of bed in the middle of the night writing strategy papers and goodness knows what else. It’s fun that we are both working on the same thing now and can discuss work together at home.

Stressing about: a difficult situation at work, which I can’t really tell you any more about (how’s that for annoying). Even so, I would value your prayers as we try and deal with the situation. I may be able to update you later.