Odds and Ends

A few more pictures from November that I was unable to post at the time. # 1 is Rory Goncalves, Bill Kelly and I at Trivia Night at one of our favourite restaurants in Juba. Our team came second on this particular night. Rory was in Juba on his way from Yambio Team Site in the southwest corner of Sudan (via Maridi Team Site) to Torit Team Site in the southeast corner of Sudan, a move he requested himself to get a change of scenery. He was stuck here for a couple of days waiting for his flight, hence the look of chagrin on his face hanging around with us old guys who have to be in bed by 10:00 o'clock at night.

The second picture is me doing my dishes in my "kitchen" which is really one end of my container, the end where all the dirty dishes are. I have to walk about 100 meters to the real kitchen where the sinks and stoves are, where I wash my dishes, bake my bran muffens (thanks to Mom and sister Sandra and Betty for sending me some mix), etc. Courtesy of Dawn Boudreau, a Canadian UNMO who went home in June, I have a hot plate to cook on in my container but any baking I have to do in the camp kitchen. The oven is so dirty, that when I open the door to check on my muffins the smoke just pours out lol. It gives the muffins a nice, smoky taste!

Picture 3 is me trying to get my tv to work (it still doesn't). For some reason the camp management bought a bunch of cheap tvs for the residential containers but there are no tv signals to pick up here, no cable or satellite dishes for the residences and I can't hook my laptop up to it to watch movies because it only has the old audio-video input plugs and of course my newer laptop only has s-video and USB outputs. It looks real good on top of my barrack boxes though.

Last picture is me at the most popular pizza restaurant in town, the Oasis, an outdoor venue in which we sit in various tukuls (open-sided huts with thatched roofs). Yes Tony, that is another beer bottle in my hand. Tusker beer from Kenya, its my favorite brand of beer now (and it comes in 500 ml bottles!!). Notice the good-looking Ocean Pacific shirt I'm wearing, which I bought on my Family Reunion Trip to London in August.