Sunday 13 January 2008

Miracles still happen...

The last three days we have been without power and so I felt compelled to phone up UMEME (Uganda Electricity Board). Now you might think what's so big about that. Well if you were an American here in the programme you would have called after 20 minutes to see what was going on especially if it wasn't your day to be off. It is amazing to work with so many people from different cultures and see how their culture dictates to them about how life should run. I wonder what people are saying about the Scots and the Swiss :) Anyway the miracle part was that when I called the UMEME office the man at the other end didn't give me some generic excuse as to why it was off but just gave me a fault report number. Within 5 minutes of the phone call our power came back on. Now it might have been a huge coincidence but a satisfying one at that. Our fridge was especially happy to be on again doing what its called to do....making things cold. After three days it seemed more like any other cupboard in our house - warm!! Chewy, our dog, benefited with all the meat that had gone off mean time. It seemed everyone gained in some way.

On a serious note though please pray for our neighbouring country Kenya. Yesterday the opposition leader walked out of negotiation talks and people are now bracing themselves for more trouble. We were told that fuel in Uganda would be a problem again. Simon called me from upcountry to tell me the talks had failed and I should go and get fuel. I had to go to three fuel stations before I could get any diesel. Now we are being a bit cautious as to when we use the car just in case this problem continues for some time. Pray for peace to come to Kenya and those in leadership will be able to come to agreement.

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