Update from Botswana (J1)

When J2 wrote the last posting we were still in Namibia, so I guess there is some catching up to do.....

After nearly 4 weeks in Windhoek Namibia, we made it back to Botswana during the second week of August. We really enjoyed Namibia, the restaurants and shops were great, our apartment could not have been better, and we even managed a short weekend away to the beach in Swakupmund. But, after 4 weeks we both really wanted to go home, and this paperwork for Julia was taking a long time. We managed to get temporary documents for her to cross the border into Botswana, and wait further on this side, so finally got to take her home.

Since then things have been quite hectic, and not because of Julia. She has been a really good girl, sleeping through the nights, coming to the office, meeting new people. The busy stuff was more related to shelter activities, running club, and mostly work. During the whole time in Namibia the guys in the office took perfect care of things, and there were not any big deadlines and new projects to start. As soon as we came back this all changed, deadlines to complete, a few new projects starting at ones, one of the guys on leave for 2 weeks to get married, and maybe we took on a little too much work. It is still very busy, but I guess we should not complain, and be very happy this did not happen while we were in Namibia. We did continue to work while we were there, writing some reports etc, but nothing urgent which gave us a great chance to spend time with Julia.

We are taking turns working from home now, which is quite nice. Julia has already turned 5 months last week, and she is very busy growing. Summer has come in very quickly, and temperatures get up to 35 degrees C during the day already. Last night we even had our first rain of the season, very nice and early.

Our internet connection is very slow at the moment, so I won't even try to load up any pictures with this post. Hopefully some time soon.

J1