les derniers deux mois

These past two months have been extremely busy (so what else is new??). The second week of September we had a high level visit from a number of donors to the programs I’m managing in both bases. Despite some last minute scrambling about to make sure everything was well organized, all went very well and the representative of the French Embassy in Kenya was very pleased with what she saw. Then we had the distribution of some 30,000 seedlings to nearly 2000 people, which we are still in the midst of wrapping up.

I was lucky enough to be able to fill a last minute vacancy in a management training in Paris in the second week of October. For one week I toured the sights of the city, visited museums, shopped, and feasted on delicious food (no more goat, maize flour and kale!!). Um, yeah, and there was some work training in there too. It was kind of surreal to be in a place that is so different from where I’ve been the last 9 months, and of course it made me just a tad nostalgic for Europe.

When I got back to Nairobi I was told that we were to have more high level visitors to the program I manage in the refugee camps. This time the French Embassy representatives would be joined by the French Vice Minister for Human Rights and a pack of journalists. Ok, good. The exposure will be good for us. When is the visit to be? In three days…!?!? Eeeek. In the end it was a whirlwind trip and it all went well so there wasn’t that much to worry about.

Now I’ve got to get things in order for the evaluation to be carried out in the third week of November…so I had better get crackin’!