Mark went to the port in town to pick up some co-workers. An hour after he left, I saw he was online and skype messaged him, asking where he was. He responded with "I'm in Goma. It's crazy, I don't have time to explain."
On the fast boat, Goma is three hours away. I had seen him an hour and a half earlier. But because of how crazy life is here sometimes, there was a question in my mind whether he was joking or not because it is actually possible that something that totally unexpected and a bit bizarre might happen.
Of course, if you know Mark, you aren't at all surprised that he was kidding, and he said so very quickly (from the waiting room at the port), but I can imagine that somehow a helicopter with our UN friend (or at the command of Mark's boss) would meet up with Mark and for some reason they'd tell him he has to go to Goma, and that's how I'd find out about it. It's within the realm of possibility.
And that's the unpredictable, crazy context in which we are trying to work.
Yee-haw!
On the fast boat, Goma is three hours away. I had seen him an hour and a half earlier. But because of how crazy life is here sometimes, there was a question in my mind whether he was joking or not because it is actually possible that something that totally unexpected and a bit bizarre might happen.
Of course, if you know Mark, you aren't at all surprised that he was kidding, and he said so very quickly (from the waiting room at the port), but I can imagine that somehow a helicopter with our UN friend (or at the command of Mark's boss) would meet up with Mark and for some reason they'd tell him he has to go to Goma, and that's how I'd find out about it. It's within the realm of possibility.
And that's the unpredictable, crazy context in which we are trying to work.
Yee-haw!
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