A pseudo friend had a great pre-departure party last night at Heritage Court hotel – private invitations, guards, way too many speeches, and free drinks – sweet! He’s been working in Arua for over a year and is now returning to France. It was a seriously awesome networking tool, as Philippe was the leader of a project for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and is extraordinarily well connected. It’s great when booty shaking gets you a lunch meeting with the UNHCR head of mission!
It’s the season of departures; my friend Leanna is heading back to Canada this week. She too had a fun-tastic going away party, on a very different scale however: potluck, funny games, good banter. Friends from Rhino Camp came in and concocted a ridiculously-obvious ex-pat in rural Africa type of game. Raymond wrote about 50 “challenges” that we could opt to carry out or pass in order to claim a stack of Leanna’s belongings being left behind (everything from DVDs and books to soy milk and bug spray).
Raymond detailing our options, and seemingly absorbing max through the forehead:
Ex-Pat Party! L-R: Max, a Polish doctor working with JRS; Kristy, a Canadian social-worker doing cooperative assessments; mystery girl; Donna, and American nurse working for MSF; Per, Norwegian, Philippe’s replacement as program lead for NRC; and Hans, a German doctor at Kuluva hospital:
Singing my national anthem jumping up and down wasn’t so bad, but some of the others were hit with some painfully funny tasks. Jungle fever afflicts William and Philippe:
And one more, for good measure:
04 April 2007
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that's really awesome that you are meeting so many different kinds of people. i hope you are taking care of yourself, remembering to breathe and staying aware of your body. I am interested in MSF, hopefully you can give me your thoughts on it, I'll email.
take care xo xo
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