Last week we said goodbye to Travis, one of the interns. Tonight we said goodbye to another intern, Matt (with spaghetti and MEATballs and ice cream!) The four remaining interns (Josh, Megan, Rachel, and I) are all sad that Travis and Matt left and are missing them already. As I said in a previous post, though, there's a lot of transition around here. One staff family just left and another one just arrived (with four kids) to start their two-year committment. And tomorrow our two summer interns, Matt and Kait, get here! None of us can believe we've already been in Uganda for four months! Matt and Kait will be here for two months and then leave with Josh and Rachel in mid-July. (Megan and I are staying here for the fall term.) We're all praying for safe and successful travel, considering the British strikes and the volcano!
Ooh, and my ATM card and new camera get here tomorrow, too! I can finally pay back all the money I've been borrowing for the past month! And my camera with a nice zoom lense will arrive just in time for my project trip at the end of the month.
We've also been spending a lot of time over the last week or so designing an intern shirt (based on an inside joke generated by the guys deciding to grow mustaches back in March) and a mix CD of everyone's top five favorite songs (all legally-owned, of course). Unfortunately, we didn't get the CD or tshirt finished in time for Travis or Matt to leave, but we'll mail it to them soon.
Today we realized that all this transition has made it feel like summer break or something, where a lot of people are leaving, but a few are staying for summer classes. Also, our last week or two has been slower than usual because we are mostly in between projects, but that will all pick up on Wednesday when we start Orientation for the new interns. Then one group is leaving Sunday for a project trip in Tanzania, and my project trip will be in Kampala in mid-June. But in the meantime I'm also joining a Colorado-based project trip in Kenya on May 28. Busy, busy.
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