Mayor

After breakfast my stomach started hurting. It usually does that one or two days after I arrive here, and then the turning and twisting settles. I tried to calm my stomach with a dose of lactic acid bacteria and some sparkling water - and to my surprise it worked! I felt fine just barely in time for the first meeting of the day, which was with the mayor of Aybak city. Our business there was to try to persuade him and the city architect to find out who owns a piece of land that is planned to be the location of a new camp. We did not have any notable success, but they promised to return to the issue within a week or so. To speed things up a little, I inquired whether the municipality authority was in need of any assistance from the PRT. As it happened, they were indeed lacking some diesel fuel for their garbage truck. I told him that I would see what I could do.

From the mayor's office we dropped by at the governor's office to arrange a meeting in the near future. We also mentioned the land aquisition process, and the governor immediately gave the mayor a phone call and told him to get to work today. What a natural talent for leadership. In the afternoon we met the chief of NDS at his office in a routine meeting. The wall between our compound and the neighbour's is coming down rapidly now, as the workers arrived. The construction site will constitute a temporary security risk, but we have taken measures to counter it. It is unseasonably hot - the forecast predicts 38 degrees for the day after tomorrow.


There are a lot of grasshoppers now, which brings other guests to the safe house, too. I wonder what will follow the many mice that we have seen recently...?