Happy to be back in Botswana
Mar 7th, 2010 by bjoern
After a very long flight taking me from Berlin to Munich – over the white Alpes, through whole African continent to Johannesburg in South Africa and I finally arrived on Tuesday after almost a day of travelling to beautiful Gaborone in Botswana. It was great flying in over a totally green Kalahari-desert, as it was raining and it´s autumn here now. It felt a bit like coming back as I was here for the research of my diploma-thesis a year ago and will now work for German Development Cooperation/GTZ in their SADC transboundary water-management program. Everything was perfect, until I found out at the tiny airport of Gaborone that one of my bags was missing and I was already afraid, that the Johannesburg-airport crews will soon have their own tennis-team playing with my stuff, but fortunately the next day also the third bag with my rackets arrived.
As I live again in a small room at a friend´s house, where I staid also last time it seems as I only left the country some weeks ago as it looks and feels all very familiar to me. But the GTZ office changed a lot, as more staff from Danemark, Canada and Germany joined the team and we are nowadays more than ten people working together with the SADC Water-Division and the fifteen water-ministries in Southern Africa. The team is amazing and on the first day I was already able meeting our SADC colleagues, second day was already project-planning and Friday I wrote the first PR concept. That is fast speed as I like it and I am quite exiting what the future brings. Besides work I am currently looking into car-buying and I hope finding one soon, as busses ar not very effective and walking produces a lot of sweet as we have over 30 degrees here. As I had my last car almost ten years ago and life in Singapore and Berlin do not needed one, that is quite funny situation but let´s see how I get ripped off by the car-shops.