Sailing with the Interns - 19/06

The week days have been consumed by AutoCad as I persistently persuade the 13 technical drawings into submission. Friday night I delivered a lecture on sailing to 10 grossly incompetent students, 1 part highly technical, 1 part movie (failure to Launch) and 1 part friends t.v. episode. Saturday saw fair winds, quality time, and exceptional sailing performance from my formerly incompetent peers. Tricking lessons on Sunday was most encouraging, because for the first time my four boys managed to follow instructions without getting distracted. Tweaking my ankle again was not on the agenda, but I should expect as much doing backwards flips on concrete-hard ground. On Sunday night,  after two melted ice-cream cakes and a night of African merrymaking, we said our goodbye's to another fallen comrade as she makes her way to the U.S. The photograph below shows me teaching the recently departed Jessie Mittelman.

"We go, We go, Ugandan cranes we go!" - 11/06

Monday to Friday has seen me swamped with emails and meetings, it has felt like I didn't get any technical drawings or report sections finished. Friday night was Aunty Mallory's Birthday, the street boys call her Aunty but she's my age, so we 'grilled out' American style. Saturday was game day and the Ugandan cranes won by 1-0. "We go, we go, Ugandan cranes we go!". Tickets were $6.00 and the whole country is crazy about football but the stadium was still only half full. Silly sailing Sunday was nothing short of epic, we had to sail backwards, blow up a balloon, pass balls between each other, and even capsize to tie flags onto the top of the mast. The photograph below shows all of us that went to the cranes game. 

Green Luscious Africa - 03/06

On Friday morning 4 interns and myself made way to Jinja and then Sippi. The tourist towns of Africa. The view from our $5/night bunk room was outstanding, the hiking to a 100 m water fall exciting, and the swimming at the base of the water fall was refreshing. Leading up to Friday I spent much time at the office, the engineering work threatened to overwhelm me. A holdup on the Kibuye project at the master planner forced me into a structural engineering and drafting role for a project in Kenya has been pushed off to me. In the Photograph below I am dwarfed by a 68 m height waterfall.