Wapi Ndizi yangu!

today i got my contract. woohoo!! had to sign about ten different pages.
it felt very official. my favorite part was the following:
“Risk Declaration
I, Paul Robert Rooker, fully understand the risk of working and living in South Sudan and I am traveling to South Sudan on my own free will. I will not [...]

its started raining alot again. at least once a day. primarily in the morning for a couple of hours.
there is a dead tree in the compound of the house I am staying at. Saturday night, it fell over because the roots no longer could hold it in the ground, and with all [...]

i want to input more into this thing, like on a daily basis, but there just isn’t a lot to talk about when all i have been doing is sitting behind a computer screen the last few days inputing information that I am attempting to scrounge from the deep recesses in my brain.
they keep [...]

my life has been a little insane these last few months. i came back from africa, decided to stay home to look for work. didn’t find any. then i came back to kenya for a visit, was supposed to leave today and now i am staying.
got a job.
at least for three months. [...]

last night i had some lovely ethiopian cusiune. unfortunately somewhere along the line something and my stomach decided they didnt want to get along. and from 12 a.m. this morning until about 10 i was visiting the bathroom on an hourly basis. was not pleasant.
and now i don’t think i will be [...]

i had forgotten how clever the con artists are round here. had a gent walk up to me on the street and say hello and started talking to me. said he was one of the guys working with our guard peter. funny thing is the night guard at our house is Peter, so [...]

internet connection in this country is irratating. it is rather expensive to have a connection into ones home, so most people frequent cyber cafes that are all over the place here. most of the time you can find a place that costs 1 schilling per minute, which is more or less the same [...]

in an attempt to work through my jet lag, i stayed out very late last night and then woke up rather early this morning. don’t think it worked.
think i will go back to the place i stay and sleep off the rest of the afternoon:)