Unexpected bounty

When the Canadian left the Team Site last Friday, he left a load of food with the remaining Canadian... so much that he decided to share with the other Norwegian and me. Looks like I don't have to worry about food for the rest of my stay here after todays haul:

Canada is most assuredly a bi-lingual country... the things that looks to have only English text on them have French on the opposite side.

It was unexpected, but far from unwelcome... thank you, and safe trip home!

Yet another day in Yei

No, still no news on what will happen... welcome to the UN - nothing works.

Other than the near daily frustration, it have been a quiet day. The weather was nice, so I grabbed the chance of an afternoon walk around the Team Site without having to step in puddles all the way.

Later in the afternoon I had a nice talk to the UNPOL Team Site Leader - seems he's going to loose a large number of the UNPOLs currently in Yei, but he'll get replacements for most of them, eventually. At least he knows a little of what the future will bring for his team, which is more than what I can say for my team.

Still no news

Today two of my team left us for their scheduled end of mission, one Beninese and one Russian. Both good guys, and both just recently transfered to us from Abyei. As I told them during yesterdays little going-away-dinner; they came to Yei too late and left too early.

For the rest of us there is still no news - persistent rumours says we may expect something towards the end of the week. Once we know who will stay and who will go they will probably open up for leaves again... probably. If it don't happen within the next couple of weeks I'll barely have time to go on leave before my time here in South Sudan runs out; we're not allowed to go on leave the last 21 days before our end of mission, and my mission officially ends on the 18th of September.

Somewhat frustrated

Yesterday was supposed to be the first full day at home, on leave... but as I mentioned they cancelled all leaves after July 9th and promised us that we would get more info in a timely manner.

Guess what? It's been over a week and we still don't know for certain who gets to stay and who has to go... and no words on what will happen to our earned leave either.

So yeah, I'm frustrated and annoyed - and I have to keep the morale among my team up too, since they are frustrated and annoyed as well.

Group photo

Due to the cancellation of leave until further notice, we have the entire team in the Team Site these days. What better time for a group photo?

 The entire team of UNMOs in Yei Team Site

The TSL was also a popular subject to photograph....