Je me suis arrivee!

Got in last night, safe and sound, and am excited to say that I am finally in Burundi. At the office right now as our boss, Tanou, is going 'up-country' (meaning anywhere but capital city Bujumbura) on Monday, so wanted to meet me today. I am getting right into the swing of things and feel like I am actually going to be helpful with a lot of the projects that they have in mind. Also, French is kicking in and coming back to me, and I can already tell that most of the communitcation will be in French, which is precisely what I was hoping for.

Unfortunately, the one downer so far is that my suitcase hasn't made it. I am not thoroughly surprised as the woman who checked me in in Boston told me that there was a slight issue with my ticketting whereby it appeared that I wasn't booked all the way through to Bujumbura. She seemed to have been able to remedy things, and clearly I got here ok, but apprently my bag didn't quite follow the same instructions. Heading to the airport in a bit to see what can be done. Filled out a declaration last night, so they should be trying to wrangle it in from Nairobi. As my boss said (albeit in French) "sometimes you just have to find someone and put a pistol to his head". I'll keep that in mind.....