Unavailable?

So I had all this energy and creative juice last night and was going to compose and post the most fantastic and entertaining blog last night... but then Blogger was "unavailable". Don't know what that meant, but unfortunately for you, dear reader, it means my stupendous and insightful thoughts have been lost. They got blown away with the wind that picked up last night at about 1:30am. There was a serious storm last night - not too much rain, but what was coming in was coming in horizontally, right into my bedroom. Keep in mind, I live in a brick tent, no windows here. So I felt a bit cool and misty as the rain blew in. This morning, some of my colleagues said they were afraid their roofs (or is that rooves?)were going to blow right off their houses - and I wouldn't be surprised if some actually did around the town last night. But it really cooled things off, which was nice, since the electricity has been pretty grim lately!

It's still a bit humid, though, resulting in a rather wet and drippy game of badminton this afternoon. How fun is it that the one and only sport I played as an extra-curricular activity in all my years of school is the one and only sport that we can play here? It's quite nice to actually be able to enjoy playing badminton and not really sucking that badly at it. Athletic, I am not. But I sure do enjoy hitting that little birdie around in the evening! And I'm rather thankful my friends on the compound here don't seem to care how sweaty I get - we all just sweat together.

On the work front, I had a very successful meeting with the team that I was facilitating last weeks' workshop with. I think it was good for us to be away together - it really was nice to have some time to just sit with them and chat and talk and get to know each other a bit. That's something that we don't really get to do much of when we're all in our offices working away! Of course, we all have tea together everyday, but it's not really that much time, and there's always a ton of people around, so it's hard to really have a very long conversation with just one or two people! So I think it was good for us to get to know each other better! Today they told me they were very proud of me for being able to use the same toilets and bathing places that they were! I think they were a little afraid that I would request/demand something a bit nicer than what they all were using, but they all were quite impressed that I just joined in the same facilities as the rest of them had during the workshop!

Anyway, I don't think any of this is very entertaining tonight, and I think I'm just rambling a bit. So I'd better just go put the kitty cat outside ("Zebra" as our new house-helper calls him) and call it a day! Maybe overnight, while I sleep, my stupendously creative post will come back to me :)