Epik Thoughts

I feel better every day, I’m getting used to the heat and how to handle it. The biggest thing for me is just slowing down. If I move at my normal pace, I overheat and get sick. Since day one I’ve been drinking lots of water, but they’re starting to run out of bottled water, and there’s none available in the markets. All of the NGOs in town work together and communicate, and they’re all in the same boat. One of the guys here has already started to filter local water, just in case, but we’re all hoping more bottled water will come in soon.

Today is really my first full work day, and it’s going well. Their laptops are really sick, but I’m making headway. At about 11:00 we came out here to WHO to get some desperately needed Internet (where I am right now) and it’s doubly nice because the room we’re in is air conditioned (WR doesn’t own a single working air conditioner right now in Geneina)

And on a completely different topic. The first night I was here, one of the cats that lives at sultan house had a kitten just outside my door. The next day, she moved it into my room under the bed across the way from me. She’s pretty quiet, so I’m not too concerned, but the momma cat woke me up last night when she knocked something over in my room. Freaked. Me. Out. Of course the dog-fight on the other side of my wall (facing the street) freaked me out too. It sounded like it was IN my room. And some of the goats sound exactly like somebody is getting slowly tortured to death down the street.

I have a feeling that the rest of my life I’m going to start half of my stories with “when I was in Darfur…”

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