First days work

This is our first real days work in Indonesia! No we are not just here on holiday…..We were woken up at 5am to the call to prayer from the local mosque. Our body clocks are still out of sync. At breakfast I was still at 1am UK time. We are currently in Banda Aceh which is the capital of the province worst hit by the tsunami. We had to go and be checked by the police. I wasn’t sure how exactly they would do this – check my UK criminal record, phone my last boss…..? It was nothing too sinister just had to have our photos taken and get an ID card.
Spent the rest of the day in the team house in a briefing with the current Country Director. Things are becoming progressively clearer as we hear more about where we are going and what we are supposed to be doing. More and more people are turning up to join the team and today a logistician and a nurse arrived. This is great as the first thing Joe the logs guy did was buy laptops and a TV for the team house.
Our new project in Nias has just made it onto Alertnet’s website. Check out the following link! http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/220382/117026504316.htm