Home Sweet Home

Well...close enough, anyway.

I am allegedly returning to the island on Wednesday, for about six weeks this time around...although when I stopped by the office to check mail on the way home from the airport, I discovered that the Aid Post Committee in the village finally completed 'their end' of a major grant application, just when I had all but given up hope considering I had been waiting(semi-)patiently for the last SIX MONTHS.

So I might not get out of here as earlier as I'd like.

But being stuck in Vila because you actually have real work to do for a real project (especially one you have been working on for, say, a year and a half or so and had pretty much resigned yourself to the knowledge it would not be finished by your departure on, oh, say...June 18 or so) is way better than being stuck in Vila because ...oh, say, it's raining, for example.

At least, I think it is. I'll keep you posted.

Details of my around-the-world tour to come (after this grant is in).