January 7 It's Personal

Dave's Presentation
Assessment Report
Risk Analysis
Job Description
Situation Report
September 30 The beginning
October 1 Paris
October 2 Conakry
October 3 Freetown
October 4 Briefing
October 5 Laurent & Me
October 6 The field
October 7 Nearly in Charge
October 8 The phone
October 10 No Generator
October 11 My Life
October 14 How much Missing?
October 19 My Informants
October 22 Always do it yourself
October 27 Why an Evaluation?
November 9 The Donors
November 20 R&R was great!
November 21 Is this me?
November 27 No Project !!!
December 3 The Beach
December 10 The Office
December 17 Club Med
December 24 Tuscan Rendering
December 30 Sienna Cream
January 7 It's Personal
January 14 Caring!!
January 21 Getting to know You
January 28 Need Assesments
February 5 Closer
February 12 Police Harassment
February 22 Beyond Borders
March 1 Obsession
March 8 It's Time (nearly)
March 10 Radio Silence
March 18 Represntation
March 31 Assessments
April 10 Re-Assessment
April 20 Security Matters
April 30 You can never have too much!!
May 6 The Strong Leader
May 14 The Times They are a Changing
May 25 Richard the Third head of mission
June 2 Learning Opportunity
June 10 Indecent Proposal
June 13 The Handover
June 14 Evaluation Time
June 17 Debt, Drugs and Pot Plants
June 17 In Transit
June 24 Home Alone
June 29 Knowing Me Knowing You aha!
July 1 THE END

["I am working on priorities at the moment... Ricardo's room will have to wait."]

Friday January 7th

8:20pm

Claudia has made Peter the interim Logistics Co-ordinator for Hope. Already it has gone to his head he has asked my to give him a full report on the expenditure so far on the rehabilitation he has cancelled the order for crazy paving (saying it is to expensive and not strong enough for our purposes) he then came to visit on Wednesday and said that I can't go ahead with the veranda on the house. It is really sad that Peter has made things personal. After all I am not doing this rehabilitation for myself it is to help those little kiddies that don't have access to enough food, health care and life saving humanitarian relief supplies. This base will be vital to ensure there humanitarian access. Peter has been really petty just as he left he told me not mix colours to make up the colours for painting as this will add a lot to the cost. I explained that it was impossible to get a good Sienna Cream without doing this and he even laughed thinking I was making a joke. This guy has really gone to far. I think I will complain to Claudia when I go to Freetown next week for the Country Programme meeting.

Well despite Peter the rehabilitation is going really well. Abdulai managed to get me the pot plants like the ones at the primary school and we managed to get the roof on. I gave the boys a bit of a hand, well for a few minutes it was really hot up. The office interiors and the living quarters are really starting to take shape. Abdulai's boys are working really fast. We should be ready in two weeks.

There is going to be a water and sanitation engineer coming to our programme. He is called Ricardo from Spain and he will arrive next week. I will move to Kamekwilu next week and I have told Petra her room will be ready so she can move in. Ricardo's will be ready maybe two weeks after. But I am working on priorities at the moment and Ricardo's room will have to wait.

Thanks for all those that have written into the discussion page and the letters I have received from my column in the Wollongong Courier.