All is well in Zimbabwe... Well, we at least are!

Internet is scare, so this message will not be a long one. Thomas and me arrived in Zimbabwe after the 15h flight on Tuesday, where we were greeted by Fred, employe of CTDT, wich is the partnerorganisation of Thomas. He first took us to have a look at the offices of CTDT, but after we displayed all of our fatigue, we were swiflty taken to our guesthouse. Yes, an informal guesthouse, run by Charity, one of the collegues of Thomas. It is a really nice house in the newly built suburbs of Harare, which even has a swimming ppol (which we have not yet been able to enjoy ;-(. We enjoyed charity's hospitality and good food and went to bed early. It already is dark here at 18.30 so that might have contributed to the fact of feeling tired so quickly.

Wednesday was our first day of work for both of us. Thomas went to CTDT, where he was introduced to so many people that he has already forgotten half their names (there are 57 employes there, though some of them work in the field). He is not supposed to go in the countryside for some time, since there is too much unrest there. Me, I met with Veerle and Caroline, our responsables for Volens here and we discussed how to prepare the big meeting next Monday. How to go about it, who get's to speak or not, budget difficulties, it means hitting the ground running. But it feels so good to finally be here, to be active, to begin working! And to have collegues, people to interchange with...

Next, we went with Veerle for pizza (which costs 399 and then a LOT of zeros, but equalled about 10€) to see Gabriel, with whom I'm driving to this big meeting next Monday, cause it is in Bulawayo, which is 5h driving away and planetickets are too expensive. He will be living there so we might take over his appartment, which is actually a house, with two floors and two spatious bedrooms, one for each of us ;-)

This morning I met with Sonah, who works for Oasis Zimabwbe, which is one of my partnerorganisations and who will be in the meeting next Monday. It was nice to already meet one of them before the meeting, so that I already will have one familiar face. Since I was supposed to have arrived 1 of April, I should have already seen quite a lot of them, but due to the elections, that was all postponed! Until now!
Cool to finally be here!!

More news, whenever we have internet, which isn't a lot!

You can text me at my belgian mobistar number +32498670910 and we're trying to get a local SIM card as soon as possible, but since the compagny is state-owned and run, it is quite the bureaucracy... and hard to get through!