Local luxuries

Dinner out last night later than usual. Nice place and food was pretty good. Decent wine as well.  

Resident life

I was asked to present some wellness stuff to the monthly tea that occurs with all the expat spouses who live in a housing community.  Nice homes inside the walls. These spouses and families stay very busy in school, volunteering and getting involved. 

In contrast to but ever improving 

Just a picture below outside one of the government buildings. They stand like that all day.  

Sunday beach

I planned well and timed the weather right to enjoy a few hours at beach after work Sunday. Back to luanda early tomorrow.  

Taking in the sites 2.0

An evening walk and taking in more sites from the camp. 

Not many places you can work and be exposed to so many nationalities. Just a few I know are here: France, UK, Nigeria, Congo, South Africa, Canada, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, India, Australia, New Zealand, Germany. I'm sure plenty more people here from all over.  

Some jackals around camp. 

Pipes from the ocean transporting fuel heading right up to the refinery. 

Hard to tell but the fogging truck runs through camp at night to keep the bugs away.  It works.  

Taking in the sites

Beauty in design? There is a lot of fuel in there for sure.  

Always something interesting

I'm always learning as each day I spend here can be unpredictable.  

One thing I like now are grilled bananas.  Women on the street set up grills made of tire rims. They grill em up and are good plain.  Someone told me to try with rum so last time home, I marinated bananas in baileys and brown sugar and then grilled them.  Really good. 

In Cabinda where we have a full functioning clinic with all the stops. Chevron is one of the major providers of care in Cabinda.  That's how Kaiser began, by offering healthcare to their workers on their large remote projects.  

From Cabinda its a 40 minute drive to malongo camp. Check in at hotel malongo. 

Hopefully get a good room. 

For me, I never get tired of nature and natural beauty.  I took an evening walk and came across the monkeys again. Never gets old. It's hard to argue that we did not evolve from them. 

The baby below ran into its mothers arms as I was walking by.  

Then dinner at the mess hall. They put out meals for thousands each day.  

Domingo

Typical Sunday working. Probably no outdoors walk today though. 

Some streets basically turn to rivers.  The government is working hard to develop the infrastructure here which is why there is so much construction.  It takes time. 

God thing I have a barber shop below the office and clinic across the street.