Since my last message we found a place to move to. It was all done in a mad rush - on Sunday we didn’t have a house, on Monday we’d already started to move. So now our house is right on the sea, is quite a bit smaller and doesn’t have any garden. It's also on the main road and we are competing with traffic noise by day and karaoke by night! Karaoke is a big craze here and it seems you have to be tone deaf to take part! Still we are not out on the streets but this may not be our final resting place! This is me and Chris at our new desks. Chris has an office all to himself because he's the boss.
Haven’t spent much time on Nias over the last week as our programme in Aceh was due a visit. Me and Chris are responsible for what goes on over there too so 1 week in 5 we fly to Aceh.
We are starting a water supply project to a tsunami affected village so we had to go into the jungle to look at the water source. Earlier that week the village had restricted access as an elephant was wandering in the jungle. Her calf was injured and the village had taken it off to be looked at. That made for an unhappy elephant who could charge at any moment. We got the all clear to walk in the jungle and me and Russell headed off to the stream. On the way we came across an enormous footprint of the elephant. We were on high alert and when Russ heard a rumble in the jungle he dived for cover. It was just a bird! Russ is keen hunter back in Canada but out here he doesn’t have his shot gun! These trips can be quite an adventure as we’ve also had reports of tiger attacks, snake sitings and wild pigs!
We are starting a water supply project to a tsunami affected village so we had to go into the jungle to look at the water source. Earlier that week the village had restricted access as an elephant was wandering in the jungle. Her calf was injured and the village had taken it off to be looked at. That made for an unhappy elephant who could charge at any moment. We got the all clear to walk in the jungle and me and Russell headed off to the stream. On the way we came across an enormous footprint of the elephant. We were on high alert and when Russ heard a rumble in the jungle he dived for cover. It was just a bird! Russ is keen hunter back in Canada but out here he doesn’t have his shot gun! These trips can be quite an adventure as we’ve also had reports of tiger attacks, snake sitings and wild pigs!
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what I really want to know is have you guys been doing any karioke?! Hope all is well with you both. Miss you.
Lna x
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