WUNDERLI WANDERINGS

The day has come and we have our new computer. It was so exciting to have it arrive on Saturday. You don't realise how much you appreciate being in regular contact with people until you don't have the option anymore. I wish I could take a picture of it and post it on the blog but Simon, I think, took the camera on his flight today. He is doing an overnight in Sudan. He was flying to a new airstrip quite far into Sudan for an organisation called Christian Blind Mission (CBM). This organisation is planning to do regular medical safaris there. He then made his way back to Juba (MAF Base) to stay the night before heading off to another part of Sudan for a medical evacuation. He plans to arrive back in Uganda sometime tomorrow. An interesting trip for him but a very hot one. I was able to talk to him briefly on the Satelite phone tonight and he said it is unbelievably hot. Thankfully the place where he is staying has AC until the power goes out :) I am doing well now. I ...

Sorry for the long silence but our computer has finally died. We are hoping our new computer arrives sometime this week and then we can be up and running as usual and get back to updating you with all our news. At the moment I am using a computer in the office but the keyboard is terrible and so I don't like spending too long at it. Plus I am near an open window on the first floor and it gets really tempting just to launch it out the window. Hopefully none of the IT staff are reading this posting :) chat more soon hopefully. :)

As I write the troubles in Kenya are escalating. While I was downtown this morning the "jungle drums" were beating, so to speak, as news was coming in that the border between Kenya and Uganda had been closed. I beat a hasty retreat to the petrol station to fill up on diesel. One policitian in Kenya was quoted as saying that the country is not to far away from complete anarchy. You can read more about the situation on the BBC website www.bbc.co.uk Please pray for the innocent that are caught in the middle of all the fighting. Many have lost loved ones and their homes.

We had a contest with the children regarding who had the muddiest shoes/sandals. I wish you could have seen the back left wheel on the edge of the slope. One of our friends said that I was choosing the very quick way down to Kampala...not by choice I have to confess! Do you like the barefeet? Some people pay lots of money for mud on their skin. This was all free with a plentiful supply of it too. We had the small landrover attached to the tree while we were pulling it out so that it didn't slide along our car or push it further towards the edge. Our friends Prado pulling our car out the mud! Hallelujah Yesterday I had my first rainy season challenge. There had been a new layer of murram (soil) laid over one of the roads that I use. It hadn't been compacted yet and was very soft because of the rain the previous night. As I drove along the car decided to go its own way. Fortunately it stopped in time with the back wheel on the edge of the slope. I got all the kids out of ...

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 o...

Some photos of Zara on our day trip to Jinja where the source of the Nile is located.