One Geek

Waiting now for my flight to Sydney. Pretty tired.

Parts of Monday really did feel West Wing like. Pretty cool now that I think about it, trying to work out the “message” we needed to get out and how. I am also so privileged to work with the wonderful people I do. People in the response group inspire me almost and possibly as much as Jed Bartlett. I hope to be that good one day.

At the moment I have been balancing the roles of IT Manger, Developer, IT support, database administrator and a touch of donor management . Add these plus an emergency and you get an idea of how busy I have been this past week or so.

Tonight I had a party, which turned into a most pleasant and wonderful combination of two people from my two current Melbourne worlds.

Tomorrow I fly down up to Sydney for a meeting with my supervisor about my thesis. I’ll be there until Sunday morning. My thesis doesn’t seem to be quite as important when in my work I am dealing with more and bigger issues then any one academic paper could hope to grasp.

Tamas a TEAR fieldworker tells his story. I did my fieldworker training with Tamas, and I had last seen him in the TEAR office only a few weeks ago. It is a strange world.

There are also some other eye witness accounts here.

None of these accounts come from the areas hit the worst. Those stories will come latter I am sure. Please if you are the praying type, remember these people in your prayers.

Pray too that the Burmese junta lets in the large scale aid.

One of the great privileges of working for TEAR Australia is being able to be part of some of the first response stuff for emergency appeals.

For those who don’t know more then 15,000 people have died because of the cyclone. For more news read here.

TEAR are partnered with some NGO’s working within Burma, and five fieldworkers in the area. We have an emergency appeal up now at our website. Please do give something to it if you can.

Next week on Wednesday I’m off to Sydney for a meeting with my supervisor, then doing some work at TEAR Sydney Thursday and possibly Friday, before returning home to Melbourne on Sunday.

I’m also off to Alice on the 4th of June for a few days of study and catching up with Ketih and Stella.

I had so much fun hanging out with Sam and Jenn. I think they both rock a lot.

Now though I am getting to crunch time with my capstone. Have until June 20 to finish it all off. I’m hopefully going to go and sit in the Alice Springs for a few days just working on that in a few weeks which will be nice.

How can it be that even when I have fallen so very far from grace, I find it waiting right next to me when I awake?

Sam, and his girlfriend are almost here. I’m meeting them in a few minutes, they are here until Saturday.

Then Mum and Dad are coming on Sunday and Monday.

Then Lesley might be coming soon too.

Yay for people.