Ugh

Well i seem to have fallen off the side of the earth. We all knew it would happen sooner or later, and really I am happy i got as many blog entries as I did. So now i guess I have alot to talk about. For starters what have I been up to?


Well it really has not been that exciting, adventure wise. The heat is not as bad, more like a summer day in MN now, so that's good. Also as happens ever year the water is starting to rise. Katima is going to be so flooded soon. (don't worry it happens every year) But i drive by the river (by drive i mean am in a car near the river or walk) every day and its really high. Good thing is locally we have not got much rain so the puddles that are normally flooded in town are not full yet. So walking around is fine not puddle hopping yet.

Before I forget I also want to say hi and thanks to Eva. I just got her package today and it was amazing. I should say hi to mom and grandma and steph, but yeah of non related people eva is the first/only one that sent me a package (hint hint) and it was pretty much amazing. Probably made my week, at the least. It had some old pics of camp, and cards for various holidays and yeah thanks a ton Eva. (everyone else should know that's probably about 50% of why I actually decided to write today.)

So moving on from thanks Eva I have just been working, for anyone that doesn't know I'm kinda in charge of the office now. Somehow I became management material and this is really not what I expected out of PC. The past two weeks though I have taken my stress out on Basketball at the local vocational college. They have intercollegiate games coming up and i have been playing with them to help whip them into shape. This has had two effects, it kills my afternoon (a great thing) and links me with even more of the community (which would be great if i could come up with a name for 1/10 people I know, but that seems to be getting lower still). It also means that since i showed up im the "coach" of the girls team and assistant coach of the guys team. Its Travis a guy that is related to my co-worker and played on the Namibian and Botswana national basketball team, A doctor from Zimbabwe (he was the Zimbabwe sports doctor for the Zimbabwe Olympic team in Beijing) and me. Our big tournament is in just over a week, and it should be good to see how much more we can get them to improve (lots couldn't dribble without looking at the ball, no boxing out, shooting with two hands, and the left hand is pretty much worthless)

Coming up after that I have a week in WHK for mid service stuff, thats right I have been here over a year now, and then I have a few days of medical to party it up in WHK, then like 5 days off (or two days travel up to katima, sit a day, 2 days travel back down) and then I will be helping train the next group of PCV's). Only down part of that should be the shots, and the fact that our possibly 3 at least 2 new volunteers are no longer happening. We are just an exclusive bunch up here in Caprivi.

Lastly I will take some time to say Hi to some people, like thank pastor mark, and the rest of the church congregation. Gma says you keep talking about me :-). Also I have not heard from either Gpa, do either of you ever get to see this? Everyone else..... well ill try to send you a person message but you can see how good i have been at that lately.