Carry the water with condom!

You can find condoms in every bathroom in UN offices here!

This is what I learned from the security training! I am taking 3-days safety & security training now.
The lecturer said we can carry 5L of water with one condom(need to test it!).
But, seriously! they recommended us to carry a few since it is very light and compact and good, for really in case, we don't have anything to carry water in unpredictable situation...

The first day @ office

Attended the staff meeting, got a briefing on program, read the relevant documents...
Also several administrative things...

Do you have a gun?

Juba town is much bigger than I expected!

This was the first contact with the local people.

I safely arrived in Juba - the capital of Southern Sudan - 2 days ago. The city is calm but under certain tension for the coming historical event.
Yesterday, there was weapon search(government or army search the weapon kept by local people) all over the city with restriction of movement for half a day.
After the restriction lifted, I was on the way to office with some colleague and asked the title phrase by the soldier.
I'm not still familiarize to see the armed soldier on the road. But the people here are kind and friendly to me.
Also the kind Japanese colleague make me feel at home.

Glad to be here.

UN in Nairobi

Today, I visited a friend of my friend who is working for UN-Habitat here. UN-Habitat has its HQ here in Nairobi.
She introduced several colleague - most of them are working women here! It encourage me to look for my future plan! Women or mama(!?) are brave and strong!!

Nairobi after 3 days trip!

After literally 3 days trip, safely arrived in Nairobi last night.
Nairobi city has many unique shape buildings! The airport building was very cool with the combination of stone & concrete! I couldn't find the architect online though... 
Today, I wanted to upload the photo of MILK but, unfortunately, I couldn't took photo since my camera needs to be charged now...
In Japan, most of the food products have 「賞味期限(best-before date)」 but here "SELL BY"! hahaha

Leaving Japan finally!

Thanks to many kind & thoughtful people, I could check in the flight today! Finally leaving Japan ~
WiMAX laptop & Kindle, thank you so much for entertaining me for long hours! ;-)

An extra night @ Nagoya

Due to the ticketing issue, my departure from Japan has been delayed 24 hrs. I'm enjoying an extra night @ the airport with public bath with great view! (Unfortunately, I couldn't try this time though...)

To the newest country (will be soon!)

30 hours journey from my hometown to Nairobi first. Will arrive in Juba, Southern Sudan after a couple of nights in Nairobi for visa application.