A large Nile perch and it was good.
The week was sadend by the unecpected death of Soloman's wife who had been married for 24 years.
Soloman is our surveyor and his loss has bought a touch of reality to us all.
Will cont morrw and it never came so today it is.
Benn quite an eventful few days have been trying ti=o track down the Mr for Finance which has been hard as he is on the Campaign trail but got him once and then he slipped the net and did not show up for another 3 days just to get a signature and the state stamp on a letter so we can hopefully shift the machinery.When we finaly got it all done sent it off and the wording is wrong so will have to d it all again maybe this time i will tie him upp in the ute they dont seem to get this is the biggest project in South Sudan since the oil was found and it is whnen it works one of the biggest of its kind in the world and will bring huge benefits to them and boy they need it we are puting anbout 100,00sdgs into thr local community a month now and this will increase we have to be careful we do not start some localised inflation and unwarrented hope that we may be the re saviours as every day there is a new haut going up around us in hope of some benefits.
Had some trouble with a couple of the soldiers his last couple of days so had to hunt a couple back to town so off I go with Zacy the governors man and 4 soldiers in the back seat and 4 sheep in the back .We get to the first road block and the car is commanded by the road block boys as they ned to get into town to Help guard the Sudanese President Bashir who is comming to town. I would have liked to have got a photo of the Carajah[white man] 4 soldiers in the back seat and 6 more on the back and 4 sheep so it is any ones guess who was the smarter my money is on the sheep.
On one of the trips this week I bought and internt modem and as part of the purcchasing they have forms to fill in and believe it or not only one page in Arabic and English the girl filled it in in typical blode fashion although there a no blondes here but only a few act likes sorry for you real blodes ot there no offence ment but you know what I mean .Any how got to the bit where I had to sign and I was given an ink pad and asked to sign with my left thunb print I was not allowed to write a cross this reminded me of when I spent a couple of hours in a lock up many years a go.
Our aggrononmist Rumbie who is not doing that much at the moment due to lack of cleared ground went off with the hunter and gatherers this week to the Maanga fish vilage and Kobus was offered a 150 cows for her to become a Nomads wife. Rumbie was quite taken aback by this turn of events as she has just got rid of a husband and has come up here to get a new start .It did not take her long oto reject the offer but it was because she thought she was worht a bit more than 150 cows so I guess time will tell.
James wife has recovered from her typhoid and is on the mend and expecting after the wet.Some men have up to 15 wives man that is one big head ache and expensive although the women do not back chat they just ,cooking do the washing ,have kids ,do most of the work,collect the water and basicaly have a shit of a time but that is how it is although there is some change happening all but slowly. It is not every mans dream some may think.
The election is very near and a bit of tensionis brewing it is hard to work out who likes who and who does not .There has been some unrest well to the west of here and we are monitoring what is going on through several different channells and we have a UN base not far about 30mins away so any body who is concerned about us we a fine and all is well.
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Hi Tim,
I have asked and asked the boys for the address of your Blogg. I finally googled you. As I read I swing between giggling my head off and being terribley worried about you. Am only up to mid-march at the mo, god forbid what I'll be thinking by the time I read through to April!
Megan
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