How time flies!

Dear Friends,
Greetings! Time flies! I am now in Seattle after seven weeks in Louisville and time itinerating in Sacramento, California.

I am on vacation, doing some itinerating, and getting some medical appointments taken care of. I am also learning about solar cooking and mosquito net tents. I will be taking two simple solar stoves back to Sudan with me along with the cooking pots that are designed to be used with them. From what I understand this new way of cooking (new to me at least) will be equivalent to using a slow cooker. I am looking forward to that; putting food in a pot and returning hours later to a nicely cooked vegetarian meal.

I am also trying to locate the equipment to have a solar fan during the hot Sudanese days. I will have electricity at my new home in Malakal, however it will be 12 hours at night. So I need to find a way to have a fan and stay cooler during the days.

Life in Malakal will be much more rudimentary than it was in Khartoum. I am having to think ahead to what the things are I will need in order to live as normal a life as possible. Fortunately because South Sudan is considered a hardship post I will be able to leave Malakal four times a year and go somewhere to shop for things that cannot be purchased there. Which, judging by my two day visit earlier this year, is just about everything. I will be living a more basic life and certainly eating a more basic diet.
Blessings,
Debbie