penance

I went to France to an event organised by the charity. It was work, really, but I also made the most of the time eating a lot of good food, and drinking a lot of good wine. And I got an upgrade on the flight back (I’m not laughing at Rwandair now).

It was 10 July and I was leaving at the beginning of September. I had enjoyed some R&R, but I now had to put in some hard yards, and they were hard yards.

Unfortunately my colleague who was running the South Sudan Clinic project came off his moto and had 4 weeks out with bruised ribs, meaning I was running the Centre and setting up the Clinic in South Sudan. As I picked up his work on the clinic, I realised he was working to ‘Africa Time’ and not necessarily the (fairly aggressive) timeline we had, to open on 30 August.

By the time I fell sick, I had done 31 days straight mostly 10+ and 5 on Saturday and Sunday. Don’t get me wrong I am not looking for sympathy and this was all out of choice and self imposed goals. But ‘eyes on the prize’, if we wanted to open on 30 Aug, there were few options.