Family/Work Update

The summer holidays are coming to a close. Joshua and Zara start school again tomorrow. They both move up a class. Joshua into Grade 1 and Zara into Kindergarten (she was in the nursery class before). It will be strange not having them around the house although I will have Zara around during the week as she is only 3 days at school. They are both looking forward to returning and seeing their friends again. Zara said to me the other day...they have lots of toys in my class...you can see where her loyalties lie.

We were truly grateful for our 10 day break in Tanzania. We were ready for a holiday by the time it came around as the previous weeks had been rather hectic. On our return from Tanzania I took up the role of Acting Programme Manager for two weeks due to our Programme Manager being on furlough and our Operations Manager on holiday. It was a challenging week but I enjoyed the glimpse into what life is like in that role...BUSY!! Thankfully it was only a two week stint and now I am back into my regular work as co-running the MAF Guesthouse and organising training. Our Guesthouse is keeping Jacqueline and I on our toes. We are now offering evening meals and continually trying to keep up with all the challenges that a guesthouse brings in Africa. The training side of life will be picking up the pace soon as a friend and I are putting together a Project Management Course. We hope to offer this course to all the Managers as well as some other folks who would benefit from it. Ilonka (Training Co-ordinator for Sudan) and I are planning our next Customer Care course for the Operations Department, Finance Department and then last but not least Kajjansi Airfield staff. We started Customer Care in June and hope to get through all the departments by October.

Due to the internet being down on and off the last few days I haven't managed to publish this post. We give thanks that Joshua and Zara are enjoying school and have got off to a good start.

Simon has base checks this week so he is busy with organising everything as well as being checked out himself. Pray the weather stays fair for all the base checks to be done. Hansjoerg Schlätter from TZ is here to do the base checks and it is quite a tight schedule. We knew Hansjoerg and his family from our Moody days and they are the family that we met up with at Lazy Lagoon. Small world!! :)