Although I will miss Goma, Coco Jambo, the people we met…. I am glad to be here and to be progressing forwards. We can now try to improve the lives of the rest of the primates in our care after being here for 7 months. And I think 7 months was enough time in Goma! Now we are where we’re supposed to be- in the field, no Mzungus, no cars, no shops, no electricity, no shower. (Don’t know if I’ll be saying that after 5 months!) They boil water for us to shower in the evenings and electricity is about every 3 days so not too bad really! At the moment we are staying in the guesthouse at the centre (seems to have a few guests even though its in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do). We are supposed to be getting a house from CRSN but nothing finalised yet. We get two Congolese meals a day, it’s great to be eating proper Congolese food for a change! We start work at 6h30 and finish at 18h00 so it’s quite long days- No days off at the moment but we’re going to have 1 day a week off. We finish work, shower, have a beer, eat and sleep! It’s great to be working everyday unlike Goma where we had a lot of free time.
I have a new French teacher….we’ll see if having routine of work will help me pick up some more…perhaps….
Phone signal is temperamental here but ok considering where we are. It comes and goes but we have it most days at least for sending texts. No email (hence why this has taken so long) as we have no reason to go to Bukavu – it’s a long, painful, expensive ride so not a lot of point!
I have a new French teacher….we’ll see if having routine of work will help me pick up some more…perhaps….
Phone signal is temperamental here but ok considering where we are. It comes and goes but we have it most days at least for sending texts. No email (hence why this has taken so long) as we have no reason to go to Bukavu – it’s a long, painful, expensive ride so not a lot of point!
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