Busy times

Sorry we have not been so great about the blog this week. We've been working, working, working. We're doing management training, recalling all our past mistakes and successes for new managers. (One woman came up after the session and said to me, "You can use this on your spouse too!)

There's been a lot going on here at our flat, the center of our universe for now. Last Saturday we had 11 people in here at one time or another, sometimes all at once. The Intel people who were helping out at Eric and Asia's foundation as volunteers all stopped by and that was fun. And the Jennifer, with her journalist guest, came by too. Jennifer wields a mean knife when chopping sugar cane in the kitchen!

And today we walked down to the Italian store/deli (where this Ugandan guy persists in speaking Italian to us, which is incomprehensible given our lack of Italian and his Ugandan accent. It is so funny when he says a cheerful, "Ciao" as we come in. Out of context!) Yes, there is an Italian community here, so we get a few benefits, like olive oil, parmesan and good pasta.

I can't upload photos right now; probably the most frustrating thing here is the Internet connection, especially in the evenings, which is when we want to use it, of course! Tomorrow a.m., I promise. (The next most frustrating thing is the pollution, but more on that later. Cough.)