Everybody! Everybody!

Hi all,

Have you seen Lake Kivu lately? It's changing colors! Par example:

Compare the two photos, taken of nearly the same spot of the lake (from a plane window). The first is from January, the second was last Sunday.

And here's my favorite: 

            

Looks like some tropical paradise with a bunch of coral, huh? But no, that water is 1000 ft deep. Sure looks beautiful!

Also, here's a nice sunset from last night:

And also, a picture of something that I noticed while at 10,000 ft. Welcome to domestic airlines in DRC. 

Today and yesterday I got to meet with an expert from MONUSCO to help me try to think through how to do the monitoring that I'm being assigned to do. I'll spend the rest of this week in conversations with another colleague trying to hammer this stuff out. This is VERY good for me, as I've actually felt lost and overwhelmed by the idea of doing election monitoring by myself. I'm hopeful that some good focus and narrowing of my duties will result from this!

And, finally, 10,000 points to "Everybody!" who recognized the title to this blog post. Email me at markjadawson@gmail.com to tell me where it's from and to receive your points.