A Day in the Life

We've received a few requests for "a day in the life" post, so I will do my best to make it sound interesting. Sarah has been spoiling you with her writing style. Mine is not so nice. Consider yourself warned.

We wake up in the morning around 9ish. We like sleeping in. There's usually a 50% chance that our house will not have water on any given morning. We live in a relatively new neighborhood, and the is the kinks are still being worked out in the facilities infrastructure department, so water from the city is intermittent. We have backup tanks of water on the outside of our house that we can access by turning on an electric pump if the city water is off.

We usually don't eat breakfast, which may come as a huge surprise to those of you who know Sarah. Breakfast is usually by far her favorite meal of the day. After waking up, we usually head up to the rooftop patio to see if we have internet today. If the internet is available, we'll catch up on emails and do any work that needs to get done on the computer.

Some mornings we have obligations in town, though most of the time we usually try to schedule our "obligations" for the afternoon. Sleep is important. We've been meeting recently with members of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and World Relief to see if we can get involved with some of their projects.

After meetings, we may run errands or stop in to a local hotel or restaurant which we know has internet. By this time it's usually almost early evening. Any number of things happen then, one being I just joined a local soccer team, which practices a few evenings a week. Unfortunately I missed the first game because of a particular nasty scrape I suffered during practice the week before.

We usually eat dinner at home. That consists of some combination of rice, french fries, plantains, peas, tomato sauce, and meat. As Sarah excitedly mentioned in an earlier blog post, we now have a nice selection of fresh vegetables to choose from at most meals as well. We just eat them plain with salt and pepper, and they are delicious.

Evenings after dinner are often spent on our roof playing Scrabble or Phase 10 (Memo to the Clements: Watch out. We are practicing up. Down to Chinatown.), reading, or visiting with friends.

Tomorrow we are heading to Uganda, where we will be for the week. We are seeing some folks from home and attending the Amahoro Institute in Kampala. Our internet is slow tonight and isn't conducive to uploading pictures, so when we get back we promise we will update you with some photos from Uganda.

I just made an entire blog post without using an exclamation point, something which Sarah would never be able to do. So that is my small victory for today.