Thursday, October 4, 2007

Home sooner than I wanted

No, don't worry. I'm not sick. I'm not coming home toute de suite.

However, my ticket obligates me to be home in Toronto on the 30th of November. So, because of my eager desire to chill out (or sweat out!) in Senegal for another month, I've sort of lost Paris.

Sort of. I'll have 24 hours.

Enough time to do what I wanted to do, but sadly not the 4 day layover I wanted. Tant pis.
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Oh, unless I wanted to pay the $4000 difference to upgrade my ticket from 6 months to 1 year . . . ah ha ha ha ha ha
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Currently, I have a second address here in Fatick. Write me, if you want. It's the office. Boo.
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I also seem to have probably lost les Conventions Locales. The contact 'on the other end' wanted to put everything in a professional context, which was a little much. He didn't receive his little letter from World Vision, so he didn't oblige me with the names of contacts at the village level. So, I had my WV supervisor handle it. Except, I think it's too little too late given how much would need to be arranged in such a short period of time.

If that route falls through, I will spend the next week hopefully re-visiting the villages where RNA is being praticed. There's still a lot there I wasn't able to pick up on.
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Actually, the only reason why I'm still sitting here is that I'm waiting to pay for the change to my e-ticket. But, I have to wait my turn.
The Air France system is horrible. Waaaaay too long of a wait for the customer. Craziness.
The song on their 'you wait here and do nothing' system is really annoying . . . Slow and boring ...
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At any rate, I got a lot of things accomplished today. I'm looking forward to an evening of eating I don't know what. I wanted to cook something, but I won't have enough time, given it's 7:00 pm already, and I want to have some time to do nothing for a change.
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Hey! I'm through! Making my changes to my flight now! Yaaa. I can go home soon!
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I've also been able to deal with my house situation. My housemates have moved out today. But, another co-worker is coming tomorrow or the day after and taking the other two rooms. It's pretty neat, because I was a bit worried about having the money for this particular month. (just because there are things I've been willing to help out with that put me at a partial shortage for the time being . . .)

NEways, I've just got off the phone. I'm outta here.

2 comments:

Crystal said...

Alex, exciting to hear about plans for coming home. Now you can officially say you'll be home next month! Cool! Sorry about losing Paris, that's a real bummer. One of my students today did a presentation on Paris. He was going to do it on Dakar, apparently there's not enough information. Anways, good to hear from you as usual! Keep up with the keeping up!

Spearsy said...

hi alex, yep i guess like me you will soon be stuck with feeling of excitment for going home and sadness of leaving.

How is Fatick and Dakar? found any interesting new places in Dakar?