wedding bells

hi! sorry it's been long.

so my housemate j is going to marry her boyfriend sg (our orientation coordinator when we first got here) next month. it's really exciting! and we're going to have the reception at our house with all of sg's family. he's their oldest and only son, so his parents definitely wanted to celebrate in some way, even though j and sg asked if they could just go on a long honeymoon to zanzibar instead of celebrating...it'll be fun. i just hope that i can make it. i have to go to zanzibar for work because there's a conference that ends on their wedding date, so i'll see if i can leave early or something. i'll feel bad if i miss their wedding...

st found out that he still has malaria.. he said that he felt ok though. he's going to get checked again tomorrow.

i think my malaria medicine is making me really anxious all of a sudden. the other day it was terrible and last night i had so much trouble falling asleep. it's anxiety for no reason, i'm wondering if i should stop taking it- i hate feeling anxious for no reason.

last week a big tree fell down in front of our gate from the rains. our poor nightwatchman had to chop away the whole thing in the morning after having stayed up all night.

oh, s isn't my friend anymore. it's bad because it also prevents me from being friends with all of his friends because we have no way of seeing each other because we always used to meet up at his apt. st told r everything- that s has a new girlfriend etc... so i think he'll be cold to all of us because of it. it's good that she knows because she had been planning on coming back to africa for him, but i think that she's mad at me because i wasn't brave enough to tell her. oh well. that's life. at least she knows now.

met up with a friend of a friend that i had never met before on monday after work. she was living in ny before she started travelling and she's interesting- she realized on her trip that she thinks that she wants to become a midwife...

drew from college is going to be in town this friday, it'll be nice to see him.

not much other news. have been entertaining the idea of maybe going home a little early to spend more time with family and friends because i don't know where i'll be in the fall. but it's kind of just a joke with myself. i don't know if i'm seriously considering it. i can't believe that there's basically only two months left..

yesterday was a holiday-union day-when tanganyika and zanzibar became tanzania. and supposedly monday's a holiday too..lots of holidays this month.

ok, lots of love, ganga