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I try to avoid personal negativity on my blog.  It’s not that I don’t have negative thoughts or even entire weeks which are harder than I ever knew a week to be.  It’s just that Congo already gets enough bad press.  The Congo-negativity is really strongest here in Congo.  I strive to be a positive voice here (sometimes I succeed).  Also, I don’t think people really want to come here to read through a stack of my problems.  I haven’t been writing about the push and pull and general difficulty of working here as a new government takes power.  I’m not complaining but yesterday may have been really hard and last week may have been a doozie.

But today, TODAY!  I am writing to give a shout out to the director of the government’s employment office.  He was concerned about a small technicality and it was holding some things up.  And today he came to our office with a solution that he worked out.  I wish I had “HOPE Congo” t-shirts, I’d give him one.  Dude, thanks so much for that deposit in my emotional bank account!