I arrived in Paris on Monday afternoon and started my debriefings immediately. I still don't understand it, but everyone is really happy with my work. It doesn't seem to me that I have done better than an average job. Anyway, I just finished my debriefings on Wednesday. I have already met up with several of my collegues from previous missions who are passing through Paris to or from missions, or who are working in headquarters.
I will be leaving Paris for the Savoie on Friday afternoon. I have already begun eating and drinking like a wildman. Tuesday evening, I had already drunk enough, when the owner of the restaurant where I was announced that it was his birthday and brought out the champagne and cognac. The walk home was difficult!
The weather in Paris is gorgeous! Today is a public holiday - celebrating the signing of the peace treaty for one of the wars - so everyone is out, sitting on the terrasse of cafés watching the world go by, which is one of the favorite passtimes of the French.
I will be returning to Paris at the beginning of June. The financial director and her deputy, both of whom are good friends of mine, offered me a 3 week job to teach the course for future admins here. I'm really looking forward to it. The course ends on the 20th of June - just in time for me to catch an overnight train to the Lac du Gard in Italy for a party on the 21st of June at the home of our Medical Coordinator from Darfur, who will be finishing her mission shortly.. And the head of our "desk" (management of a cluster of countries) has put me down on the list of candidates for the context and environment training (training course for future field coordinators) in September in New York. I'm pretty excited about that, too.
But for right now, I look forward to finishing my apartment in Lyon and living in it.
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