We come to the IRC office and I enter to similarly crowded conditions. About fifty staff, both local and international, are working in a five-room house. The table where I used to sit is now occupied and my files are missing. I wander out to the porch to find some chairs and bring them in to claim a space for the next couple of days. On the agenda for today is school re-roofing and distribution of education materials.
Some more investigation is needed to identify groups to assist in each of the thirteen districts.
I turn in my list of schools for the Oecusse district and lay out our delivery plans. Good news, next week we ll be able to give out notebooks and pencils, chalkboards and chalk, and balls and nets to most of the schools in the district. Someone brings up concerns over teacher incentives, which have not yet been paid after three months of teaching in many of the districts. The meeting closes and I go back to the office to spend an hour with my translator learning the local language of Tetum. As it s quite a simple language, I ve gotten quite far in a short amount of time.