Its been awhile

Hello all,
Its been a while since i last wrote. I've been really busy with work and am finding it hard to get to the Internet cafe for long enough that I can sit down and write in the blog. Anyways enough excuses from me. Work is going very well and i am really enjoying it. This past weekend Seraina and I went to Jinja for a picnic with Thomas and the jinja branch of the schizophrenia fellowship. We had a lot of fun. Good food and good company. We stayed the night in jinja and woke up the next day to a lot of rain. Oh i forgot to mention that we were camping. Yep that's right in a tent with no blankets. Luckily the tent was water proof. So sun when we woke up and saw how much it was raining we decided to go ATVing and have some fun in the rain. It was a blast and we got to see alot of the area around Bujigalli falls.
This past mon I got to see some clients that i have been doing some counselling with. I have not seen them for a few weeks and the first time we met they were not doing to well. But when i saw them this past mon they are showing signs of improvement which is very nice to see. Its nice to see a client smile and laugh when, the time you saw them before, there was only sadness. I have also set up a workshop that i am going to facilitate at the monthly schizophrenia member meeting. I am going to be talking about coping mechanisms and how to care for someone who is mentally ill. Things like thought stopping and grounding techniques for those who are living with a mental illness and how to handle someone who is being aggressive ect. for the caregivers will be discussed. So wish me luck. There is expected to be about 60-70 ppl there so i am a little nervous.
I have also stated doing some teaching at Kitengessa Secondary School which is also a lot of fun. The kids are so willing to learn and so open that it makes my job very easy. I am hoping to start a peer support group after school with the hopes that it will continue after i leave but I don't have much time left since starting at the school so late in the practicums, so we'll see.
This up coming weekend Seraina and I are planning to go back up to Jinja and Bujigalli falls to do some white water rafting on the Nile. Grade five rapids and some of the best rafting in the world so once again wish us luck and hope the the Nile is nice to us.
Anyways Bye for Now
Shawna