Over the past few days Andrew has begun his flying training here in Chad. Yippee.
It has been challenging due to weather restraints - one day it was too hot here to start the plane until 5pm (he began work at 7am!) so it was a day of theory learning and watching the thermometer. Today, as I write this, after getting up at 5am to hopefully fly before it gets too hot, the dust seems to be a problem and visibility poor so I do not know if he is up in the sky or not.
Please pray that over the next week he will complete the training necessary as Patrick, the person training him, works for MAF in Madagascar and has to return next tuesday.
We have also brought a car....... Very exciting and if you remember my little old red corsa we used to have, this is very different. A toyota 4runner, automatic, 3.4L and 4 wheel drive - needed here if we leave the city roads. Car shopping was an experience. Here you find a car you like in the garage in your price range and that is it generally. There is no real choice of specifications - if the car is OK then whatever the specifications are, they are either a bonus or not. It was a testing time car shopping in the 42C heat, with a toddler and in French! Praise God that we were able to go with a local MAF employee to help us out. Another difference was the need to go to the bank and withdrawi the money to buy the car in cash.......
We continue to feel blessed here and pray that our shipping, which should arrive on Wednesday to the airport, comes to us successfully with minimum custom fees.... We are all very excited about the thought of opening the boxes to see exactly what we packed up over 7 months ago! Zack just has one request - that he gets his track back!
Monday 18 March 2013
Friday 1 March 2013
7 weeks in Chad already!
We have been here now for 7 weeks, time is going really fast and we have all settled in well. The kids are loving playing on the compound, especially in the small swimming pool. We are getting used to the hot weather, although apparently in April, the hottest month of the year, we are told it is like living in fire!
Andrew has brought his own motorbike for getting to and from work. The soft sand on some of the roads make his trips interesting but then he does like a challenge. He has been in the office most days but has been able to accompany Bryan, a relief pilot here, on a couple of trips, including one to Cameroon, so he was able to claim a new country! He is looking forward to beginning his flight training in just under 2 weeks time.
I have conquered driving on my own! I cant say I like it but I have to do it. Especially as Zack has started at a kindergarten in town so I need to drive him there and pick him up. He is enjoying it and even is picking up the African accent sometimes!
We have brought a washing machine although not able to use it yet as here we need to run electical equipment through a voltage box and although we have a voltage box we need to attach a plug! Nothing is straight forward here! We also seem to find that fridges here are not the most reliable and are currently had 4 different ones.
The mosquitoes continue to bite but I have found a very good mosquito squatter in the last few days - a wet flannel!
Now as I write this, the children on the compound, 10 of them, are off to play together under a water sprinkler in one of the gardens........
Andrew has brought his own motorbike for getting to and from work. The soft sand on some of the roads make his trips interesting but then he does like a challenge. He has been in the office most days but has been able to accompany Bryan, a relief pilot here, on a couple of trips, including one to Cameroon, so he was able to claim a new country! He is looking forward to beginning his flight training in just under 2 weeks time.
I have conquered driving on my own! I cant say I like it but I have to do it. Especially as Zack has started at a kindergarten in town so I need to drive him there and pick him up. He is enjoying it and even is picking up the African accent sometimes!
We have brought a washing machine although not able to use it yet as here we need to run electical equipment through a voltage box and although we have a voltage box we need to attach a plug! Nothing is straight forward here! We also seem to find that fridges here are not the most reliable and are currently had 4 different ones.
The mosquitoes continue to bite but I have found a very good mosquito squatter in the last few days - a wet flannel!
Now as I write this, the children on the compound, 10 of them, are off to play together under a water sprinkler in one of the gardens........
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