Pretty much just another slow week. I still can`t go to the schools, I still haven`t started making my bed, and my cookies aren`t getting much better.
I`m going to start doing a survey of the households in my community pretty soon. This is just a way of finding out basic information about the families (how many people live on the homestead, sources of income, water, food, etc.) that we will use when coming up with our own programs, but it`s also a good way for the people of the community to get to know us. My Counterpart has to do something similar as part of his job so I can just tag along when he does his thing. We`ve done a few so far, but there`s over 1,000 households in my chiefdom so we`ll see how far we get.
On Thursday there was supposed to be a program to provide the elderly with food in the next community over. The community leaders had been planning this for some time because the Queen Mother (the King`s mother) was supposed to come, but something came up at the last minute and she had to cancel. It`s supposed to be rescheduled for some time next week and I`ll be sure to take my camera when it does happen.
Swine flu...what a pain. First of all, I`M FINE! But apparently someone had it the other week when we were all at the office for the party. So far there are only a couple of confirmed cases, but a bunch of people have flu-like symptoms. Because of all this we`re supposed to be limiting our travel and staying away from crowded places for a week or two. For better or worse, this doesn`t really affect me right now because my group isn`t allowed to move around much anyways, but it`s still annoying. One more time, I`M FINE!
Right now my Babe is in the U.S. He was in Uganda and/or Zambia last week on business for a charity group he`s involved with and this week he`ll be in Atlanta and San Diego for more meetings. (I asked him to stop by my house to grab some stuff I forgot so be nice to Mathokoza if you see him). I still have yet to figure out what, if anything, he does full time (he might be “retired”), but this has something to do with a U.S. church group that is working with his charity to put on some program here in Swaziland. I`ll be sure to find out more when he gets back.
Last week I found out I`ve been chosen to go to an HIV/AIDS conference put on by the CDC with two other volunteers sometime in December. I don`t know too many details right now, but it`ll be somewhere in southern Africa (anywhere but Swaziland, hopefully).
Hopefully I`ll have more to write about next week. Wish me luck.
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