We arrived safely in Bunia, DR Congo at 1pm yesterday [Friday 14th Oct]. Tim drove us to Heathrow on Thursday evening, and our journey was trouble free with excellent B.A and MAF flights. Dr Nancy met us at Bunia airport just after we had been interviewed and cleared very quickly and without customs being at all interested in our 8 items of luggage. We were then surprised to find that we didn’t have to fill in any lengthy forms or pay an entry fee this time! We learned it is because it isn’t our first visit! We were passed through with a smile and thumbs up!
The Domestic staff at the Doctors’ house greeted us with cheers and hugs, and 2 of the Nursing College Directors called in to give us another welcome.
We were given a free early morning at home today, while Nancy went off to do her Hospital ward rounds at 6.30 am!
Later, we all set off to the Market for the weekly shopping which is always an exciting experience! After lunch and a siesta it was then time to get ready for the ‘English Club evening’ when the young Doctors come for a meal, followed by a Medical Presentation via Philip’s Laptop, where they have to discuss everything in English. This evening the subject was ‘Surgery’!
Tomorrow we will be going to Church in the morning, and then we are invited to an evening meal at the home of one of the College Directors. It will be lovely to meet Jonathan’s family again.
Work at the College will start on Monday morning at about 8am. John will be checking on the previous Nurses records programmes that he set up in March, and we will then find out what is needed to be done in their library. Cataloguing and labelling will no doubt start in earnest after that!!
We already feel very at home in Bunia, almost as if we have never been away!
Thank you for your prayers and interest,
Janice and John.
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