Life has been pretty unexciting here the past few weeks, besides all the World Cup hysteria. Hence the mixed-bag nature of my recent posts (including this one).
Despite the unexcitement, I'm growing quite eager for my Zambia trip next week. I leave my site on Thursday for Dar to spend a few days getting some admin stuff taken care of, and then I fly out on Monday!
I'm visiting a friend I knew in a previous American life, before we both turned into PCVs. I'll be there for about 9 days, doing...well, I don't really know. She's done all the planning and told me nothing, so I'll be taking it day by day. I do have some surprises planned for her though, since it'll be her birthday on the 1st.
Besides that, I've been living without power for the past week and a half. It makes me laugh how easy it is to negotiate here in Tanzania, especially when I think about the time in DE when our power got knocked out by one of those hurricanes for, what, 3 days, and we almost went insane!
I also finished my second batch of wine this past week, and just today I helped the academic master at my school start his first batch (most productive day I've had in a few weeks, sadly). I've started giving my wines silly names, this one being "Honey, it's Bananas!" because I used unripened bananas and honey. The first batch I've dubbed "Orange You Glad I Used Pineapple?"
Please don't make fun of me.
nice wine names...why would anyone make fun of you when there are wines in the stores with names like "fat bastard", "mad housewife", "elephant on a tightrope" and "cats pee on a gooseberry bush"...thanks for the chat on fathers day. have a great vacation. LPJ :)-D
ReplyDeletePretty sweet! I like the wine names. They're cute.
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