Sad News

This morning I got a skype message that the USAID representative here in DRC had passed away yesterday. Now the freaky thing is that Jim was just out here last week where I'm working doing a site evaluation visit in Kalamie and Moba. I had lunch and dinner with him and his assistant several times over the course of this past week. I heard his stories and opinions and held my tongue at the things he said that were inappropriate or annoyed me. (Can you tell I didn't like the guy?) Jim flew back to Kinshasa, where he and his wife live, on Friday and then had a fatal heart attack while playing tennis on Sunday. I feel really sad for his widow, and I'm so glad she probably got to spend time with him before Sunday. So a crazy bit in this whole thing is that we'll get a feedback report from his evaluation visit, but we can't contest any of it, because it's our word against a dead guy's. This is all too weird. Life is unpredictable - you never know when your time is up.