Nearly got washed away and had to tackle a biblical plague of lake flies...

Today's workshops took a while to get off the ground due to a massive down pour washing away our conference area (we'd opted to work from outside) and then a plague of lake flies taking over the air we were using to breathe! No exaggeration there have been billions of tiny lake flies occupying every inch of air that's available for the whole of today. Luckily they don't bite but that doesn't make it any less disgusting when they are in your hair and your ears and your mouth and up your nose and worst of all turning your cuppa tea into a lake fly broth!! I tried to take a picture but my crappy iPhone camera couldn't pick it up. 

Anyway fly attack averted and 3 big brollies later the vols relocated to a more hospitable area and work resumed.

I've managed to find time for a spot of shopping today and have picked up a few essentials, soap, peanut butter, crackers and biscuits! Exciting times.

Now I'm relaxing watching Man U and building my appetite ready for some delicious food (or at least I hope so). 

Tomorrow were retuning to the community and I've 11 supervisions to complete and type up (joe lomas let me hear you complain about doing 6 supervisions! - ha!).  

I've been contemplating getting my own place in time for the next cycle rather than living from my host home. I love my host family and I'm happy with my place but its just not practical to live with a host family and do this job, as often I'm arriving late for lunch and dinner due to dealing with work and emergencies and also it's difficult to find any time to relax and have time to myself. My family are really lovely but sometimes I just wish I could come home from work, make myself dinner and then relax watching telly or something alone. However my normal routine is get home from work, drink chai with the family, be subject to bbc Swahili for around 2 hours then have dinner around 9.30-10pm then go straight to bed ready to wake up at 6-7am to start all over again. The difficulty is how to approach this with my host family as I'm sure that especially my host mummy will be very upset and offended if I move out before the end of the program.

Suggestions on a postcard guys....would love to know what you think.