Sorry if we've been out of touch. We felt rather thrown in at the deep end (sadly, pun absolutely not intended) when April (and our unofficial new-role assumption) opened with the floods I mentioned in my last post. The tensions and demands of the last couple of months (eating instant noodles with rice over the kitchen counter when one is too dead tired to cook anything else between crisis response meetings BD; thinking through COVID-19 safe measures for return to work, reassuring staff when colleagues get COVID-19, reminding people that COVID-19 is real, googling "mask-fitting in low resource settings?") have given me slightly more insight into the uncertainties of life out of our privileged bubble. I am getting better at not feeling as guilty, and channelling any guilt into work. As the floods waned, COVID19 surged. I'm grateful to be connected to others, in other countries, who have seen first and second waves and much worse- their steadfastness and perspective giv...