But this day got even more crazy, after FES called me and asked what I am supposed to do next two days. Well, I just had normal working days in mind and so they told me, that the flight is almost booked and I have to represent the FES in a training in Francistown. Two hours later everything was agreed and booked and nobody was really surprised about the short preparation: “normal procedure, as we do not even have the final programme”. I really want to figure out, what real speed means over here. ;)

One hour after the FES people left the energy was gone and we found out, that the bill was not paid for two months – some happened also to our appartment, so I lined up for two times two hours at Botswana Power Cooperation to fix the energy… which came back two days later only. The same time Martin had a lot of fun with the contractor company, who was employed to fix the roof of the foundation and lay new roof-sheets un the roof until the FES people come back. In the afternoon all workers suddently left and the roof stayed half open – half closed. Well done we thought, they know what they do cause they are professionells… but we realised at 20 oclock, after the first raindrops went down, that there might be a small problem and went straight to the office. It took us three hours of removing all the sensitive financial files, computers and electric equipment until we saved the office interior but it really rained through and the walls, the lamps and the carpet got wet. In the morning the company came back and apologised for their mistake, they were praying the whole night – well, that did not helped them a lot, so I managed to negotiate some deals with them and they removed all isolation and wet wood from the roof and fixed the whole roof in one (!) day before new rain arrived. After the FES people came back in the evening office was fixed and only the carpet stayed wet and the walls needed to paint a bit but we seriously had two amazing days full of surprises. And we learned: if somebody ask you to watch out for their office better be prepared for everything. :)

Cause as their project is visited this week by two auditors I moved back to the office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, which is organising workshops and trainings with civi society actors as well as media and youth NGOs. Inside the office we are currently two diploma-aspirants, which are both working on SADC water-cooperation, and two FES intern and so we occupy the whole office while the project manager and resident representative are on a training in Mocambique. So I enjoy the beautiful garden and keep on going to get an overview on my topic to start writing next week.

The next days I work on the young journalists network and potential exchanges with “the world” and I love do to the work, cause the country lackes independent media and that would make a big difference to the people – even if only 200.000 have internet-access, the news are spread out via radio and TV and reach them. Next week the SPD chairman Kurt Beck is coming to our office, so we are already cleaning – which is not that easy, cause after the rain we have only dust outside on the streets…

Today I am the first day in my new office and hope for great work. Thats gonna be a great challenge here, as I like it. :)

This plane was my plane from Dubai to Kabul – Boeing 727, still flighting: