Time Capsule! Today in my life!

Woke up a little late today. I got home late last night from watching movies at work. I have successfully turned my work into an after hours movie theater with the help of a projector and my extensive supply of major motion pictures. Anyway, i woke up a little late, cooked me up some fine wild oats (brand name). My friend Never usually comes in the morning to walk to work with me but today he was off to work early, i woke up too late. Coffee and oats, an all too familiar way to start the day, but the perfect way to get you going. I splash some water on my face and take off to my home based care oasis. I know i've got to finish writing my grant proposal today, and start compiling the additional documents to be attached. This drop in center and soup kitchen should have been constructed years ago, but the funds were never placed appropriately to get it going. I'm gonna take my best stab at it, I hope to be successful, wish me luck!

The morning is pretty quick, everyone is busy, the day starts quickly. I finish writing the proposal and realize i need reference letters for the project. I've got a worthy counterpart today, our "hydroponic coordinator" but damn is he much more than that. I simply call him KG, and i've gotten to know him very well in the past few weeks. We take a stroll to the clinic and we talk to the principal at the primary school, we draft a letter to the clinic and the induna (traditional leader) and we get them signed and pressed with stamps. Things are running right smooth.

The manager of my project shows up, stipends in hand. Its been a while since the caregivers have received funds for their work. An always present challenge when working in the NGO field, and confusion leads to disagreement. Things eventually get straightened out, but we will see how things move forward.

Never tells me that he has finally finished the computer he has been working on. By scraping old part from various computers around town, he told me today that he actually got the thing working. We installed a hard-drive earlier this week and i was not optimistic the thing would ever turn on let alone be functional, so when he told me today that all he needed was a keyboard i was ecstatic. Never works at my organization, he struggled through school, and didnt finish grade 12, but he is a hard worker and is a whiz with mechanics and fine motor skills. He's a year older than me we share the same birthday month, we both agreed we need to through a big party. We struggle to communicate sometimes with each other but we are friends, and when he told me that he fixed a scrap computer to a working PC, I couldnt help but smile and know that as my gogo says "he will some day eat with a fork and knife."

The day was winding down by this time, and most of the people took off after they got paid, so i helped mix chemicals into our hydroponic garden before setting up my office into a movie theater once more. I shared bread, beans, scrambled eggs, mango atchar (sliced mangoes in a spiced oil), and a cup of tea with my security officer, and then watched Sherlock Holmes. It was a ten hour day at work, 9am-7pm, but I cant help but smile.