This blog has worked pretty well so far but I think I found another site that goes a lot faster and will let me post a lot more pictures, easily so I'm going to be using that one from now on. The site is:

http://geoffc.blogspot.com

Actually... it was the only wedding I've ever been to, strangely enough. One of FFC's watchmen's daughter (I don't really know the watchman and have never met his daughter) was getting married so he invited all of the volunteers to the wedding that happened this morning... at 6:30 ( Read more... )

The past few days have been going well! A little bit of hanging out with the kids... a little bit of manual labour.... and a little bit of free time and visiting Coimbatore! On Sunday the boys had soccer again- early in the morning but I decided against it... maybe next weekend but I wasn't really feeling it. There wasn't too much going on that ( Read more... )

Well... my big news for today is the successful grocery shopping trip I took yesterday! We went to Nilgiri's (yes... I know what you're thinking- isn't that a mountain chain in Southern India? Well... you're right, but it also happens to be a giant grocery store in Coimbatore!) and I found Nutella which made me happy but then, on a giant display, ( Read more... )

So... this is a short entry... because the power keeps going on and off and I don't think it's too good to be using a generator so I can post on my blog. Basically... I'm alive, got her safely. I flew from Toronto to Brussels to Chennai (spent 10 hours in the airport... not too much fun) and then on to Coimbatore where I was met by Sunbeam (the ( Read more... )

Well... I'm almost done with the YCI part of my trip. It's Tuesday and it's our last day of work at Kwacha- we're ending with a "clean-up Kwacha day". No failed attempts at pictures for this entry I'm afraid and probably none until I get home... have my own computer... and fast internet to do it on! That should go well...

Last week was all right- ( Read more... )

I don’t know why but I’m really hot right now… maybe it’s some sort of cold- I wasn’t feeling amazing today or maybe it’s just getting hotter here. Well… it’s definitely getting hotter here but I’m not sure if it’s enough to bug me this much. Anyways, about the weekend- there were the ups and the downs but overall really good.

The really bad part ( Read more... )

So I’ve managed to hijack Devin’s computer and I’m typing this entry to my blog around 10:30 at night… in the dark. Why the dark? Because there’s no other option. Power’s out again but I’ve got to say I’m pretty impressed- this is only the third time it’s gone out in the past month and a half. When I was in India it was out so much more then this. ( Read more... )

So the week is over... more or less. It's Friday and that's our day off for the week. We're working tomorrow to help pull together some final things for an HIV/AIDS awareness concert on Sunday that'll be followed with a play that Kwacha's putting on. Somehow, four of us actually have parts in the play- it's entirely in kiswahili except for out ( Read more... )

Here is the update for the past week. I’ve been trying to do it a little more often but it hasn’t happened. Last Thursday we had the interesting incident with a stolen purse on Tanja’s birthday that pretty much meant Kate was gone until yesterday trying to get something done at three different police stations. Apparently she went into one and there ( Read more... )