About 13 months between these two pics: WHERE??
It is unbelievable that I did not write on my blog since Dec 23, 2013... The reasons: cataract surgery, Paris, Brazzaville, Port au Prince, Raleigh NC, Washington DC, Charleston SC, Kabul, Kinshasa, Ouagadougou, Bangui, Abidjan... not forgetting flight connection nights in Nairobi, Dubai, Douala.
It is 3:15pm and I am home alone actually since yesterday afternoon after having lunch with Mama in Isoraka. I want mainly to talk about my morning. I woke up late, had a quick breakfast with a left-over pizza, a banana and a big bowl of tea. Then I screened among the laundry to select what to wash with what and started the washing machine. Then I went around the garden to collect the avocados that have fallen during the night and prepared a salad mix that I will eat this evening as a light dinner. I also had to unfreeze a piece of fish for my lunch (by leaving it just on the table). I spent an hour in front of the TV to watch the recording of the last PGA tournament in Houston before collecting the laundry and hang it on the strings in the garden. I filled again the washing machine for a second round and started to cook pasta: I managed to get it perfectly al dente....and completed fish cooking in the microwave within 5 minutes, with a mix of lemon, black pepper and chilly. All of that was absorbed within minutes completed with 2 'dried' apples still very tasty and not 'vary masaka' at all. The well deserved cup of green tea was prepared at the same time I was washing plates, pots and forks....Then I went to collect the drying laundry and hang the second batch... delayed because at first I forgot to add soap.. Later today I will have my practise of short approaches because an important tournament is coming up next week end.
Why do I talk about these very domestic details? I realised how much time is needed to complete these domestic tasks at home: I did it because I was alone and I did not have/take the time for any house cleaning or even bed making... So I am very grateful to all those who are doing it allowing me to do something else or even nothing else... And I sympathise with all of you, mainly those who are continuously leaving alone, when some of these daily tasks are not completed properly.
Tomorrow I will be very busy between a round of golf, a process to sign up for a basic Evaluation course and some car maintenance work. It is amazing to realise that I have been a 'big boss' of planning and M&E and I never attended a formal course on Evaluation... mieux vaut tard que jamais!
Et voila, a few lines to demonstrate that I am back to my blog. With love!
En 2011 voici ce que j'ecrivais:
Je suis a une croisee de chemin apres avoir vecu a Tana, Paris, Toliara, Toamasina, Boston, Bujumbura, Gaborone, Islamabad, Sanaa, Abeche,Dakar et Port au Prince. Comment rendre cette experience utile a Tana ou ailleurs? Could this experience be really interesting for anybody? Should I just go around as I did for the past 40 years?
Interests:
Development, Humanitarian action, Public Health, Civil Society, Human Rights, Tennis, Golf.
Deja plus de 3 ans qu'on s'est re-installes a Tana... On en reparle!
