-Eugenia had her baby girl about 4 weeks ago. She's such a cutie! I've gone to spend a couple of weekends with her to help her around the house and to help watch the firstborn because he's such a hyper little creature. I don't know how she manages to take care of the cleaning, cooking, feeding the baby, watching the firstborn, etc when she's home alone. Madness I tell ya.
-Moises got married (Moises and Eugenia are brother and sister, so a very eventful month for the family). Filo, the oldest sister who lives in Namibia, came up for the wedding and to spend some time with our baby niece. Fun was had by all.
-The music students are showing lots of progress... we're working on our repertoire for a sacred mini-concert we hope to have at the beginning of next year. So excited about it all!
-My puppy got stolen. My cute little puppy, who was so smart he was already potty trained at 6 weeks old, needed to go outside to pee and asked me to be let out first thing in the morning as usual. He usually goes out, roams for a minute or two, pees, roams for another minute or two, poops, roams for another minute or two, and then runs in all happy looking for his bowl of milk. I was getting ready for work, but I soon noticed he hadn't ran back in after a few minutes. I went to look for him in the front yard, called and called and looked EVERYWHERE. I woke up my neighbors, who loved him like their own and helped me by dogsitting when I traveled. They helped me look for him, they even went out to the opposite side of the building where the guards sit and interrogated them. Nothing. Nobody had seen little Bongo. I felt like slapping every resident of this city for a while. I get so mad when something like this happens (to me or anyone I know). I've never lived in a place where you can't just have things and enjoy them. You get a iPod, it gets stolen. You get a decent phone, it gets stolen. You buy a decent car, it gets broken into and whatever is inside it get stolen. You get a puppy, it gets stolen. Seriously people, can yall learn to just live and let live? SO infuriating!
-Work has been insanely busy. I've been all over the place between projects in Soyo, Cabinda, and Luanda. And starting in January, I'm gonna have a HUGE year-long project that is going to keep me so busy because it'll be on top of what I already do. But it's because of this project that I get to have a trip to Carrollton... (aka my vacation trip to DFW is paid for!) so I'm quite happy about it :)
Anyhow, I just wanted to end on a positive note. I gotta run now, but hopefully I'll have some time to update the blog with some pics and MAYBE a video or two if the signal decides to behave...
Later!
