Let the Countdown Begin

So – I’m starting to get very very excited about going home at Christmas – less than two months to go and I cannot WAIT. I have a mental list of things to check out – I want to look at the program for the Moonlight Cinema while I am there, Anna is checking out concerts during my stay, I will need some new clothes and most of all, I need to see how much my puppy has grown.


For those of you unfortunate never to have met her, this is Phoebe – our little schnitzel (schnauzer-shitsu cross) – a non-stop bundle of energy who can wriggle like nothing else and never seems to calm down. And I miss her so much and cannot wait to see her again…

Life out here in Soroti continues on – the Ukrainian helicopter pilots cooked dinner the other night, which gave quite a few of us unpleasant lingering after-effects! We also had a dummy spit when the restaurant at the hotel put the prices up by about 30% - Giovanni, the UN OCHA head of office here went and threatened that we’d all check out, so they caved and returned to the original prices – power to the people!


Anyway – continuing with my theme of being too tired/busy/lazy to really write much, I thought I’d give you some pictures of food being airdropped in Pader – due to the inaccessibility of the area, the food is dropped from planes and we meet it on the ground. Just try not to be underneath it when it lands!