Lights Out!

I'm back home in Seattle after 11+ months in East Africa!  I'm enjoying the cooler weather and getting to wear sweaters and socks.  It's also nice to have reliable electricity, water, and (fast!) internet.  But the funniest thing just happened.  I haven't been home for 24 hours yet and the power just went out!!!  LOL, I think I brought it with me....Well the power didn't actually go out, we actually just blew a fuse in my bedroom because of the vacuum cleaner, but I just find that pretty ironic.  =D

I've been pretty busy in the last couple weeks, so I haven't had much time to blog.  I'll try to update little by little (or slowly by slowly, as they'd say here).

I'm leaving Uganda on Tuesday!  I can't believe it!  (I haven't left East Africa for 11 months!)  So things have been busy busy aroudn the office as we've been finishing up our big semester-long project.  We printed, binded, and completed our project on Wednesday.  It's so satisfying to bind a report (that's almost an inch thick) that you've been working on for 4 months!

For Thanksgiving, the interns and American EMI families and several other Americans we know (and a few Ugandans) all went to a big potluck in a big nice house.  It was a lot of fun to have a good old fashioned American Thanksgiving with lots of Thanksgiving-type food and lots of families and kids all around!  It's not really anything like my typical Thanksgiving (generally spent with 2 other people), but it's what I imagine a lot of big family Thanksgivings are like.  It's nice to know that I have somewhat of an extended family here.