Happy Thanksgiving

As the title of this post suggests, I'd like to wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving. Last night most of the volunteers from Northern Province and I had a good ol' fashioned Thanksgiving dinner. We had all of the fixins necessary for Thanksgiving and it was a very pleasant occasion.

My apologies to all of you for kind of falling off the radar for a few months. I got back to Zambia on August 17 and this has been the first I've really updated anything since then. I'll try to be better about doing that from now on.

Life's been good since my return. My village life has been nice, despite the fact that I've been absent a lot the last few months due to meetings, trainings, and a variety of other reasons. Since I returned I've done some upgrades on my house, had several classes, killed a pig, read many books, bought a cell phone, practiced my mandolin a fair amount, and then recently celebrated my first year of being a volunteer. It was a year ago on the 22nd that we swore it, so I'm over half way done now. Not that I'm counting down the days, but it will be nice to return home at some point in time.

I'm headed back to my village tomorrow, and I won't return to civilization until January, so I'd like to wish all of you a Merry Christmas as well. I wish I could be at home to celebrate with you all, but this is my place in life for the current time. Thanks again for all of your letters and I hope to hear from you soon.

Much love,
brett