I’m starting to feel at home here in Torit. More than two weeks have gone by and my little container in the wilderness is taking shape…well, I mean it has my maps on one wall, my guitar in another corner and even a wee desk and chair to sit under the AC all day! After installing a new router I also have fuller access to the internet without having to waste away in the sun!
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My work is more enjoyable now that the focus is more on GIS. I don’t have to sit through workshops in silence so as to make sure that the framework came from our local colleagues and not the University of Edinburgh (or Moscow in the case of my associate Anton!). Instead, I’m preparing materials to bring along for the field work on baseline conflict analysis in the comforts of my teeny freezer.
What is much more exciting is the prospect that I am to go to Khartoum for two weeks to train on the CRMA (Crisis and Recovery Mapping Analysis) database that we will customise and implement here in the South. Depending on other schedules, I’ll either be flying out from Juba this Sunday or next. I’m told my visions of skyscrapers and city lights may be a little hasty, but the chance to swap my lonely ice box for a UN office seems like a good plan to me…. Let’s hope the North just don’t think I’m a Southern spy…
Until then, I’ll be making maps in my storage space if anyone needs me.
p.s. I officially hate paella now (thanks Spain)
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