Still in London

Jeez...

I would never have thought that getting immunizations would take so long... I guess I am here at least until Wednesday since I won't get my immunizations till around then... I think! I feel like I am on speed and I think I have dropped at least a pant size since I found out I was going from the excitement of course!

Anyways for those of your curious as to the actual location of the refugee camps, you can refer to the map below (courtesy of UNHCR, for a full view of the map go to http://www.unhcr.org/publ/PUBL/4541b7164.pdf) .

From what I know I will be working in both Yarenja and Sherkole. Yarenja being the smaller camp only 1,886 people left then there is Sherkole which is a bit bigger.

I was told that it was about 26 hours by car to travel between Sherkole and Addis... I will have to ask again, though I doubt I will be actually doing the journey by car very often! For now this view of reality will have to suffice but I PROMISE that I will take photos and try to render reality a bit more human and less "political" ;)

Frannie

Set up test

OK peeps!

I know I am getting a bit ahead of myself but I have my reasons... I am already dreading the internet connection at my parents' which will no doubt have made this process PAINFUL and SLOW... and I am by no means a masochist!

So this adventure does not start for a while... I think I am leaving London at the end of this month but I still have not seen a itinerary or ticket and I need those before I can head to the Embassy and then I wonder how long it will take them to give me a visa...

Otherwise I have started the much dreaded packing... you would think that having started moving from here to there and everywhere since I was I would be used to it... alas 'tis far from the case. My room's contents will fly all over the place and the debris will settle down a good 2-3 times (if not more) before I can say I am packed... and that will have to happen within a week's time... I want to cry!

But I am looking forward to this adventure... and maybe you will accept to share my joys and tears (I am taking the liberty to pre-empt this possibility)...

ANyways, I am not gone yet and I still have internet access for at least a week... though I will prolly be online whilst in Addis... subject to powercuts and a very capricious internet service...

This is only the beginning you ARE stuck with me!

Kramar
Fran