Good Bye Sudan

Well here I sit, in a hotel in Entebbee Uganda, waiting for my international flight home, which departs on Tuesday morning (0330).
All the checking out is completed, all the goodbyes accomplished, and all the excess cargo has been shipped.
I can say the the past year has been very rewarding and challenging. The rewarding was as a direct result of the excellent work that was accomplished with the SSPS. I met so many wonderful people both from the UN and from other agencies.
The challenging aspects have been working within the logistically challenged UN system, I believe that if any officer can work within this system, and be successful, then he or she could work anywhere. I will miss my friends in Yei, and in Aweil, but I look forward to getting home and reacquainting myself with my family, and continuing with my career in the Calgary Police Service.

The main mode of moving product around Aweil

Just thought that I would like to show you what I do most of the day.

The Trains transporting 2300 independently displaced persons from the north arrived in Aweil today. These people fled this area during the war, and are now returning home after 10 to 20 years away.

The train tracks were built during the war to move war material from the north to the south, however there use has a more peaceful purpose these days.

As I was sitting there watching the trains unload, these little darlings were watching me.

Canadian Cat

World meet Razzi, when compared to the African Cats, well actually there is no comparing, Razzi, by shear body mass out does them all.

Cats of the world unite

You've all met AC before, he looks alot better than he did in this picture; but when compared to Razzi......well I'll let the pictures tell the story.

The Camp here in Aweil is much larger than the one in Yei, I would say double the size.

Those are mango trees. They were planted by the British in the 1960's

This is the perimeter road, I walk it at night, and then run it in the morning when the tempatures are much cooler.

That blue building on the left is a church. Although most of the Southerns speak Arabic, they practice Christianity

This is my new container, much like the one I had in Yei, just older