Just over six weeks to departure to Wau, pronounced wow, in South Sudan. It's a 90 minute flight from Juba the capital. There is a road, which is impassable in the rainy season and deemed to be unsafe at other times, from Juba. I'm going to Mary Help College of Nursing as an advisory tutor. I'm quite sure the job will be different from the job description so I'll have to wait and see what my role will be. One thing is for sure it will be very challenging but perhaps not as challenging as getting all my shoes to my placement.
I don't know what my accommodation will be like. I may just have a room somewhere with shared cooking and toilet facilities, I may share a house or live in a guest house. I'm working on my squats in case the toilet facilities are not what I'm used to. I'll be really disappointed if I'm in a guest house and can't cook for myself. It's a lot of fun trying to make a meal out of local produce on a charcoal burner.
There seems to be a never ending list of things to do, things to buy and things to remember to do before I leave. At least setting up my blog has been scored off the list. The spare room looks like an assault course with an assortment of obstacles obstructing the wardrobe, piles of equipment on the wooden chest and toiletries falling from the shelf in the wardrobe. I've just about completed my immunisations, got my antimalarials and made up my first aid kit.
I'm hoping to blog regularly while I'm away but it will depend on Internet access and access to power. I know there is no power in the town where I'll be living but hopefully I'll be able to recharge equipment at work, if they have a generator, if not I'll have to find some alternative. I'm taking plenty of batteries and wind up torches.
