Home again!

Yup, I made it home. 10 minutes after arriving home from the airport, I was called to a 3 hour marathon meeting on the compound. Phew, it was tiring. I have to admit, I was pretty anxious to get that meeting over and done with! I was meeting-ed out! But the meetings last week in that small town were really good. And even the marathon meeting back here at home was good - there are so few times when all the appropriate people are in the same place at the same time, so it was good to sit and talk face to face about some of the things that are going on here.

This morning started out a little strangely, too! There was some sort of house to house search for weapons going on this morning. So all the roads were closed, and everyone was just supposed to stay home. However, we had some people coming and going from the airport! So we couldn't just leave them there... and there was supposed to be some special permission for the airport runs.

But the average soldier on the street doesn't really care that you're going to the airport. So I was stopped several times on my way there by soldiers carrying really big guns! I just stopped the truck, and tried to speak politely and flutter my eyelashes a little at the soldiers that stopped me. One guy was pretty fierce. But there were a few others who just joked around with me a little and were really quite friendly once I told them what I was doing!

And it was probably a really good day for one of our visitors to come - he's the director for the project funding from our international organization, based in the US. He's also lived before in Africa, but there's something somehow satisfying when we have visitors and they can see how crazy things are around here!

We're living off the generator again these days, so I only have a few minutes before the lights (and my internet connection!) go out. So I'll get this posted and climb into bed. Have a great day, and I hope it's less crazy than mine was today!