First Stop Nairobi

Welcome to Juba Soup. My attempt to blog my life and times as a State Department contractor in Juba, Sudan.

I'm not there yet, so I can't say for sure what its going to be like, who I'm going to meet, or even what I'm really going to be doing.

In a nutshell, for those who don't know me or don't know what I'm doing, I am going to be living and working in Juba for the next year as an employee of Pacific Architects & Engineers (PAE). PAE is a government contractor working around the world on all sorts of different contracts...but among their specialties are working to develop government capacities in rule of law and judicial reform. I think this is what I'll be helping to do, but I'm still not entirely sure.

As I said, I'm not quite there yet. Right now I'm in Nairobi, Kenya waiting for my Sudanese visa to come through. I've been here before, so its not an overwhelmingly different place to me, but its exciting nonetheless.

Today was spent mostly exploring, stocking up on some supplies, and recovering from the long trip. Tomorrow will be more of the same, and I should be gone by Thursday. No one will probably have seen this by then...but this is a good start.

Off we go...