I forgot to add something...

...to my last post. After a communal dinner we had at Robert the German's container on Sunday night (the Kraft puddings I made for dessert were a big hit!!), when we had all gone back to our containers, I got one of those real intense loneliness attacks that completely baffle me, I'd been with people all day and normally I need some alone time after that to order my thoughts and mull over what we'd talked about and what I'd learned during the day, but it just hit me as I was sitting at my table (maybe its sitting at my table that's doing this. Hmmm). Enyways, I ended up washing all the dishes from our dinner and a load of laundry by hand just to get over it. The feelings are so sudden and so intense it almost overwhelming; if I could phone an airline in Juba I'd probably call one in the middle of the night and make a reservation to come home. But it passes. Heba tells me that she has experienced these too, she's done a lot of extended travelling and I haven't, so its the first time I've encountered. As she says, all I wanted at that moment was some familiarity.

Heba has been a great friend through the last month or so, and I like her bluntness with me (another story for another time). If she'd only stopping calling my music leftover '80s aerobics songs...