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Day 4: Dec 24, 2006

We’ll be flying

Blog 12/23/06, N’djamena Airport 7:20am Stacey hates flying, or maybe dreads flying would be a better description. But, here she is in a small 18 seater plane with me, as the propellers start turning and the engines making a noise that must be terrifying to Stace. I’m between excited and worried. It’s not every day […]

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Day 3: Nov 23, 2005

In the air again, but now to Abeche!

The kind people at the WFP assisted us in getting on their N’Djamena to Abeche flight. As I’m writing this, I’m sitting on the right hand seat of row six, right over the wing of this eighteen seater. On Chris’ side of the plane, you can see “United Nations” on the wing. It feels so […]

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Day 3: Nov 23, 2005

No sleep

It is too late, or too early, to go to sleep now. We stayed up setting up the upload for day two of i-ACT. Before that, we did the final edits. It has not been easy here in N’D. The city rations the electricity, so we have to be very careful about always charging our […]

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Pre-trip

In the Air, Over Africa

As I am writing this, Chris and I are onboard an Air France plane to Chad. We are over Northern Africa, about two hours away from landing. We have a busy next couple of days in N’djamena coming up. We have to connect with the different agencies and organizations that will make it possible for […]