Tamarin

today i'm writing from colorado, where i'm staying with tracey and her family just outside denver. it's pretty warm here comparatively, yesterday when we arrived it was 50 degrees farenheit, which was nearly t-shirt weather compared to all the temperatures i've been in recently! (though today it's back down to freezing!) in ann arbor it was the worst, days were between -15 and -25 celcius, so basically it was too cold to do anything. one day when school was cancelled cos of the cold, we took my cousin's kids to a play cafe, and while walking from the car to the cafe my wet hair started to freeze! that'll teach me for refusing to use hairdryers... a highlight in ann arbor was going to the outback steakhouse, which is meant to be australian. i'd heard ... read more

well it's been a jam-packed week since i last wrote! last weekend we were still in vancouver, and went to visit the capliano suspension bridge, which is, as the name suggests, a huge suspension bridge over a river. it was really beautiful, with snow on the ground, fog in the mountains and huge fir trees everywhere - it was the type of scenery you see in the travel brochures for canada. tuesday we had a 3.30am start to catch a 4am taxi to the airport for our flight to los angeles! we cleared american customs in vancouver, which was weird but handy cos it meant we could then just exit the airport like you would on a normal domestic flight. we got a shuttle straight to anaheim, checked into our hotel, met up with greg, ... read more

today is the coldest day we´ve had in vancouver so far, with a high of -6 and a low of -16! i had to invest in some thermal socks cos my toes have been going numb when we go outside. it hasn´t snowed since wednesday but there is still snow on the ground because it´s been too cold to melt. the other night we went to the shops to try to find makeshift toboggans - we bought a christmas tray and a windscreen reflector, then walked to the park where we found a hill to slide down. unfortunately the tray snapped in half after one slide and the reflector lasted just as long! but we´ve had fun making snow angels, snowmen and having snowball fights. last weekend we hired a car with plans to go ... read more

hello all! after writing a big long blog last night, i hit publish and the computer crashed and my blog was lost...so here goes again, and hopefully this one will work...we've had a busy couple of weeks since i last wrote. we spent 10 days on the south island, visiting some great places. first up was christchurch, which reminded me a bit of england. it was pretty but not spectacular like i had been expecting. we didn't have much time there, so just walked around the city a bit and got a feel for the place. from there we drove up to akaroa, a french town on the west coast, which is set on top of an old volcano. the drive up was a nightmare, bad weather coupled with winding roads with a sheer drop off ... read more

Hello! Have had a really busy but hugely fun week! Can’t remember when I last checked in with you, but will try to update you on what we’ve been up to recently…on Sunday we attended KPC East church, one of the 5 they have around kampala. Kpc east is held at the Mandela international stadium, which is a huge stadium for track and field stuff. Before the service some of the team decided to have a race around the track and unfortunately dave cut his toe really deeply and nearly fainted in the service. I turned around and saw he was looking kinda grey so we took him out and mong did some first aid and gave him sugar, so all was fine in the end. Church was great again, some African songs and some English ... read more