Pictures

I had some lovely conversations with friends today, so I'm feeling a bit word-ed out. So I'll just post a few photos from the last few weeks. And yes, there is a theme running through these photos. Can you see what it is?!
This is my lettuce and bits of chicken tikka from Friday night.

This is the new cafe that just opened a few blocks from my house. If only I can get an antennae for our internet to somehow connect over there... I'd make it my new office!

And this is Jackie and Andrew (my two colleagues) in the cafe yesterday afternoon.

Zane's been eating, too! This is a morsel that he caught in our house. When they're alive, they scutter around too fast to take a picture, so before Zane devoured it, I took the opportunity to get a photo of the little guy. This one is about 6 inches long, from nose to tail. Zane, by the way, likes to eat them tail-first. They really are everywhere in our house. Normally, I don't mind them, but one night I did have one INSIDE my mosquito net on my bed. That wasn't cool.

Because we're on the eating theme (did you guess it?!), I'm posting one more photo. You can just see in the corner the guy making the fried eggs and chapatis (one of the best street snacks money can buy around here!). But I actually took the photo because it's just such a good combination on the sign - get your haircut and charge your mobile phone, all in one convenient location :) And then, on the way out, grab a chapati and egg for lunch. What more could a girl ask for?

Tomorrow we start our "Literacy Specialist Workshop". Pray for us - it's a 10 day workshop that Jackie and I are facilitating to help some of the more advanced teachers in the language projects improve their skills as teachers of the Mother Tongue. It will be interesting, as we've never taught a workshop like this before, and a lot of it is new to us... and new to the teachers, too! We'll have 25 of us there, so pray that things go smoothly and that the participants will really learn a few new things to increase the quality of their teaching, and will encourage them a bit, too.

But quite honestly, I'm really ready for a break, and all I can think about is my upcoming trip to Tanzania!! So pray that I can also stay focused. I know that once we start (in, oh, goodness, um, in 9 hours!), I'll get excited about it, just because I LOVE teaching, but I know it's going to be a bit difficult to concentrate at times because I'm pretty worn out at the moment. Anyway, if it all gets to be too much, I can just run down to the corner cafe and get a macchiato :)