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Tuesday 22nd September 2009
It appears that the more one showers in cold water...the colder the water gets...honestly...I swear it gets colder every morning....rubbish! Due to yesterday being a public holiday...the pleasures of the 2 hour weekly meeting were saved for today..and to think only a few months ago, I struggled to make it through the morning briefing at school...and that was following a hot shower! We arrived for 7am as expected and the room was being set up...it appeared that the executive secretary had not yet arrived so the meeting was chaired by somebody else...after about an hour of discussion...none of which I understood...the executive secretary turned up...the meeting ended up going on for 2 hours and 46 minutes! I could have cried...Not only that, but I was nearly speared to death by a bird flying in through the window...following this I nearly fell off my chair...which the ladies sat in front of me found highly amusing! I sat in the office until 3pm...by which point I was more than ready to go home...most of the morning and afternoon had been spent trying to send a VERY cross email to Vodafone...who after 2 emails and 2 letters have still failed to do as I have asked! Not only that...but when I went to write the letter on the format they request online...their website was out of order...I don’t think I have ever been quite so cross in my whole life!!! I was bright red and VERY hot with crossness. I was just about to go home when Denise, who is part of a team dealing with family planning in the district came in looking for Ruairi...he had gone home to get something to eat before his English class...Denise however decided that I would be able to help her...she needed to translate a report from French to English...I tried my hardest to explain that I didn’t speak French and would therefore be unable to help her...but this was not accepted...and I found myself translating a report on programs running to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS...when Ruairi turned up I took this as my cue to leave...and flew out of the door...when I got outside...the clouds were gathering and large drops of rain were starting to fall...thankfully, they were not too heavy...but once the wind picks up, you know you only have a matter of minutes before the heavens open and you are soaking from head to toe...I was nearing the house when this happened...my skirt was blowing this way and that...I just needed a wicker basket and a dog called Toto...and I could have been Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’...the bit when the twister is coming and she is shouting ‘Aunt Em...Aunt Em.....!!!!!’ Anyway, you will be pleased to know that I made it safely home before the rains came and my beautiful Cath Kidston laptop case did not need to prove its waterproof staus! As I went through the door...I was nearly scared to death by Alexandre...I had completely forgotten that he was in the house...
Tuesday 22nd September 2009
It appears that the more one showers in cold water...the colder the water gets...honestly...I swear it gets colder every morning....rubbish! Due to yesterday being a public holiday...the pleasures of the 2 hour weekly meeting were saved for today..and to think only a few months ago, I struggled to make it through the morning briefing at school...and that was following a hot shower! We arrived for 7am as expected and the room was being set up...it appeared that the executive secretary had not yet arrived so the meeting was chaired by somebody else...after about an hour of discussion...none of which I understood...the executive secretary turned up...the meeting ended up going on for 2 hours and 46 minutes! I could have cried...Not only that, but I was nearly speared to death by a bird flying in through the window...following this I nearly fell off my chair...which the ladies sat in front of me found highly amusing! I sat in the office until 3pm...by which point I was more than ready to go home...most of the morning and afternoon had been spent trying to send a VERY cross email to Vodafone...who after 2 emails and 2 letters have still failed to do as I have asked! Not only that...but when I went to write the letter on the format they request online...their website was out of order...I don’t think I have ever been quite so cross in my whole life!!! I was bright red and VERY hot with crossness. I was just about to go home when Denise, who is part of a team dealing with family planning in the district came in looking for Ruairi...he had gone home to get something to eat before his English class...Denise however decided that I would be able to help her...she needed to translate a report from French to English...I tried my hardest to explain that I didn’t speak French and would therefore be unable to help her...but this was not accepted...and I found myself translating a report on programs running to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS...when Ruairi turned up I took this as my cue to leave...and flew out of the door...when I got outside...the clouds were gathering and large drops of rain were starting to fall...thankfully, they were not too heavy...but once the wind picks up, you know you only have a matter of minutes before the heavens open and you are soaking from head to toe...I was nearing the house when this happened...my skirt was blowing this way and that...I just needed a wicker basket and a dog called Toto...and I could have been Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’...the bit when the twister is coming and she is shouting ‘Aunt Em...Aunt Em.....!!!!!’ Anyway, you will be pleased to know that I made it safely home before the rains came and my beautiful Cath Kidston laptop case did not need to prove its waterproof staus! As I went through the door...I was nearly scared to death by Alexandre...I had completely forgotten that he was in the house...
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