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I feel like I have just flown halfway around the world and I haven’t even gone quite that far. The trip was rather uneventful. The longest line was the one to get out of Philadelphia. It has been a royal pain carrying all of the baggage that I have got, but I know that the things I’ve brought will make a big difference during my stay here. I look forward to getting to Kisangani where I can truly unpack it all and settle in. It was nice having a travel companion in Lee Zimmerman who has come from Lancaster, PA to help with some IT work for two weeks. Let it suffice to say that the arrival tonight at Kinshasa was a unique experience. Traffic was quite bad for the night time coming from the airport to my new boss Nate’s house, but at last we are here and cooking something to eat. I know that a night’s sleep will do some good, but it’s hard to sleep on a new bed in a new climate under a new mosquito net and all of that in a new time zone. Hold on, I need to change the time on my computer’s clock… That’s better. Now at least one clock is right, even if the one in my head is swimming.

So it is quite humid here, and it did just rain recently, so this might be a little thick tonight. But it’s true what I have been told, that it is not bad at all when you have a fan blowing in your direction stirring the air. Of course, I haven’t felt it in the daytime. That’ll come tomorrow.

I know the now familiar feeling of arriving in Africa for a two week PLNU LoveWorks trip. I realize now that the end date is always in your mind. Now I am here and I am here for awhile. It’s a good feeling, and an apprehensive one. God is good.