Another day another stool test….

Well, I have had a few days feeling reasonably healthy so I guess I was due for something. My friend the amoebas are still with me. This time I have been given 45 pink and blue pills and have to stay off alcohol for a week (five days whilst I gobble the pills and another two afterwards to be sure). Apparently, if you mix them with alcohol the consequences are dire.

Been busy all day today – that is such a rarity that it is worth a mention here. Not that I have been doing work for college! I am re-writing the Higher Diploma module on Action Research – I promised it ages ago but got sidetracked with my OU course. A couple of local teachers came in for support with their own action research projects, so that was good. Interesting issue – on the one hand the government are pushing AR as a solution to the problems in the education system yet on the other hand the current political climate hardly fosters a spirit of freedom and experimentation.

We are thinking of coming back for a few weeks in May as we have to go to Addis anyway for a leavers conference. Really we should wait till term ends in July but I don’t think it will make a huge difference when we go – we are hardly flat out! We get the Scotland map out regularly and are zeroing in on a certain little corner in the northwest but it is certain to be midgy. I think I will appreciate coming back more this time around. I have extensive mental lists of things to do and things to buy. I need to start looking around at jobs too. I want to live somewhere wild and remote.

Went down to the Red Fox on Sunday to watch the London marathon on the big screen. What a shame about Haile. Very exciting finish to the mens race and London looked beautiful. I am sure it isn’t really like that!