A lot of long distance drama March 11, 2009

I had a quiet and fairly productive day, but lots of things were happening in SA! It looks like Dr Woodrow will be coming back either tomorrow evening or Friday morning, and Julie and I had a frustrating time trying to confirm his booking and make taxi arrangements for him at a guest house in Maputo – he had sms’ed someone and got a response, and yet when we tried phoning that number and about 6 others, none of them were working. He also emailed and phoned throughout the day to tell me of all the problems he had been having with my car – yesterday the battery was dead and he had to get a new one, and today the car caught fire! I guess it was an electrical fire, because it sounds as if the car is mostly still fine, but the starter needs to be replaced and who knows what that is going to cost? Sigh. There is still nothing much happening with the containers, and I think I’ll stay home tomorrow. Amongst other things, I have many pastors who need to be informed that they need to pick up their books from the bookshop – but the main cellphone network, MCel, has been giving such problems that I almost despair of succeeding…