My Week Last Week

Curious what I do during the week?! Well here is a look into my week from last week. It was a very busy, wild, but a very good week.

March 2^nd – Ran around getting permission and books for D.E.A.R from Kasiisi Staff. Worked on budgets for the Girls Peer Education program and planned GPE/BPE schedules with Pat. Went to Fort for their Kampala Fair, shopping, and dinner with the boys. 

March 3^rd –Staff Meeting and meeting at Kigarama with Barbara about the KFSP libraries. Called Heather on her 25^th Birthday.   

March 4^th – Max went to Jinja for a staff retreat with Princeton in Africa Fellows from around Africa. Will and I went to MUBFS for a Chimp Photographers Empako dinner (naming ceremony). It had rained in the afternoon but cleared up to be a gorgeous evening. We had dinner out on the lawn surrounded by very large baboons and the forest. 

March 5^th – KFSP Schools participated in Drop Everything And Read (D.E.A.R). Went to Kiko Primary School with Will to help out with D.E.A.R. Had all pupils reading for 30 plus minutes. Had a massive storm with straight-line winds which took off the roof of a staff members home and took down some large trees. My friend Crystal welcomed a baby boy in America. Purchased my ticket home this summer for a visit to the homeland.

March 6^th – Our organization celebrated becoming a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with an all day party filled with amazingly (sometimes extremely boring) speeches that would go on and on forever (Ugandans like to talk). I went and helped in the kitchens. 

March 7^th – Will and I went Chimp Trekking in the Kibale Forest which was awesome! After months and months of training, Team Clarke started the Iditarod Sled Dog Race in Alaska – 1049 miles through Alaska. Check them out on Facebook – Team Clarke Iditarod 2015. GO TEAM! 

March 8^th – Made pancakes, did some laundry and cleaning. Then went to town by myself for some shopping and lunch got back had an afternoon nap. Made Butter Chicken curry with Will – YUMMY! Watched House of Card episode and then bed. A relaxing day for me. Much needed after a major lack of sleep this past week.  

There is a lot of other small little things I do during the week. Theses are the bigger and more exciting parts of my week. Usually it consist of getting up around 5:30AM reading, working, maybe some yoga, breakfast then off to the office by 9AM then office stuff until 1PM lunch then back to the office or off to different places for events or just working from home. Dinner around 7PM, watch a TV show or movie with the roommates, shower, read, then bed around 10PM and repeat.