Up, Up and Away I Go

[So I realize that these titles may need some work in the clever/redundancy area but I’m stuck with them now (and so are you) so get used to it.]

This week is going to be very busy, I am at the office now, Monday the 16th of October, and working to confirm my weekly travel plans. I have a counterpart coming in from DC later today but before she arrives I have lots of donor visit preparations and meetings. Tuesday I am taking a ferry to a nearby island to spend the whole day viewing programs we are taking the donors to see. Wednesday I am taking a helicopter to a small peninsula town (the roads are very bad so helicopter is the only way to get their and back in one day’s travel). Thursday I have to go to Singapore to work out some details with my Visa and will be back in the office on Saturday.

To prepare for all the running around this week I did a lot of running around on the track last week (7 runs in 8 days).

I will talk more about the people and some of the nuances of Banda Aceh during the next post, but that may not come until next week depending on how much free time I have while I am in Singapore. I hope you are all well. I am tired, a bit sick and totally stressed about my insane work load...In otherwords, I am exactly where I love to be (this is so cool).