Deja Vu

Same place. Mombasa. Same room in Generalate house. Same person. Me. Different condition though. Remember my post about mosquitoes when I was here last time ten days ago? Came back this afternoon from Bura Motherhouse sick, sick, sick...that malaria never went away. Three doses of duo-cotexin in the span of a month time didn't help. It struck again with vengeance. I'm sure that night I described in that post contributed to my present condition. Truly,  I don't wish anyone, not even my worst enemies, to go through this...Everything you can imagine with strong malaria, it's happening to me. And tomorrow I'm flying back to Dar and then to Mwanza and to Kiabakari. I hope I won't fall apart...

Final Proofreading

Woke up alive this morning and checked my emails. Wow! Got two of them from my publishing house in Kraków - Wydawnictwo Petrus - with my book divided into two parts for easier downloading. Still, I don't know how it was possible - with this slow network speed here in the mountains - to download two parts, 6 Mb each! It must have been a miracle...

So, I guess, today, apart from seminar proceedings, in my free time, I will do some serious proofreading and checking the final shape of the book, with its layout, pictures, everything. Wish me luck! Some 600+ pages plus more than 500 pictures. A mountain to climb!

Now off to my duties. Praying for you as promised. God bless us all today!

Little Switzerland

So, after three hours of earnest driving, we (three sisters, driver and me) have arrived to Bura Motherhouse of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph. It feels good to be back here. I love this place, located on a plateau surrounded from three sides by beautiful hills (I would rather call them mountains) and the opening in this crescent-shaped hills allowing for the twisted dirt road to wind its way around the slopes of Taita Hills. This area looks to me like a Little Switzerland, so beautiful and serene, so new every morning and every evening...

Mombasa

The short hop to Mombasa from Dar es Salaam via Zanzibar (15 minutes to Zanzibar, then 50 minutes further to Mombasa) was uneventful, thank God! Though the weather made for some bumpy ride over Zanzibar Channel and on our final to Moi International Airport in Mombasa.