Peter Delhove (ADRA Madagascar’s Country Director) and Sarah (one of the ADRA employees) were nice enough to meet me at the airport where Sarah whipped me through customs and helped me with my bags. From there, it was off to ADRA’s headquarters where they set me up in a guest room and I spent Saturday recovering a bit from jet lag and getting ready to leave early Sunday morning to the project site in Ambositra (pronounced AM-BOO-SH-TRA), approximately 260 km south of the capital.
Sunday, John (the SALOHI project director), Sarah, and I started our 6 hour journey south at 6:00AM. Although it’s only a distance of 260km, the road conditions and John’s penchant for stopping every 30 minutes (Hey, this is a good place to get some crepes! Here we will get cheese! Here we shall buy fruit!) made the trip about 6 hours, lol.
Once we arrived in Ambositra, I was shown my room at our project site
and was delighted to find out that I had fairly stable access to the internet and highly pressurized hot water! Most of our project site’s building is being renovated for all the staff and volunteers, so the maintenance still has to put together my bed, find the key that unlocks my dresser, and finish the bathroom…but all in all, it’s a very comfortable room.
I also got to meet Gil and Ben, a young couple who volunteers for ADRA (she’s from Mauritius, he’s from France). They live in the floor above me, as does Sarah. The four of us will be sharing food and a kitchen for the duration of my stay and I think it will work out good as we are all about the same age with similar tastes in food and cleaning and cooking habits…kind of…I have yet to tell them that I don’t cook well and every night I am assigned to cook dinner for us will be a spaghetti night, haha!
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