I woke up early do to a little jet lag hanging on (I’m not totally immune, just highly resistant) and had a terrible back ache (p.s. Thank you honey for packing the Advil in spite of my bullheadedness). So I walked circles around the Sultan house for a while to try to shake that off.
Oh yes, the Sultan house is where WR employees sleep when not on duty. It’s a few minutes away from the offices. I found out that it’s not just a nick-name, it’s actually rented to WR by the local Sultan. Cool, huh? Anyway, it’s basically a normal sized house with a couple of out-buildings for additional bedrooms. I’m on one of those.
Friday is a day off in Darfur, so around 10am two of the staff invited me to breakfast with them over at Save the Children’s house. That was wonderful, they made eggs and crepes, but they didn’t have all the ingredients so we walked to the nearby market. It was a fairly cool day for Darfur (lower 90’s) and it was really relaxing. I didn’t eat much, but what I did eat was excellent.
Later in the day there was a beach volleyball party over at the UN’s HQ here (very nice place. they even have a pool I might get to go in next week). There were people from all over the world from several different NGO’s (Non Government Org, that’s what they call all the humanitarian aid orgs here). It was a fun time, and by the time dinner rolled around I was feeling good and even had my appetite back.
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