(I'm not sure what day I should say this is. I left you and Mommy four days ago, but then I was on a plane for a whole day. So I've only been here for three days, I guess, but I miss you four days' worth.)
I'm here in Cape Town now, and I got to see my new office! It's smaller than my old one, but it's pretty nice. I didn't know that they were going to have an office ready for me already, so I didn't bring any pictures of you to put up. But fortunately, I always carry some pictures of you an Mommy in my wallet. I'm not sure if you can really see them, but I set them up near my computer monitor.
Yesterday, I think Mommy told you, I took some time to stop being so tired from the plane, and also walked around the neighborhood a little. It was pretty nice! And I saw some other people biking. I think Mommy showed you the picture of the street that I took. And of the big mountain from my window - when you get here, I hope we can go walking around on it some time.
Today was a work day. This morning, I got to meet a lot of people I'll be working with that I didn't meet when I was here before - Miss Jill, Miss Liliane, Miss Dawn (who I've been working on the book with). And I saw some people I'd met already. Mr. Paul gave me a big hug and asked if we'd found a school for you to go to, and said he'd heard nice things about the place I'm going to check out for you tomorrow (I'll send a picture, of course). Dr. Ade, Dr. Kudrat, and I, along with other people in the group I'm working with (it's sort of like centers - we're the book-writing center) talked about what books we might write when we're done with the ones that we're working on right now. We're going to talk to some of the people who give us money about what we want to write, but right now it looks like we're going to write four books. One about why some people in Africa believe that fighting is good. One on how people and countries in Africa can work together more. One on some of the good and bad things that have been happening near the Congo (where I went when you were little). And one about how African countries can work with some of the countries that used to be poor, but are now getting richer, like Brazil and China. And I might go give a talk with some of the people who work in a different center about how wars and diseases like Ebola (probably like Ebola, but not Ebola) are connected. I'm pretty excited about the work!
In the afternoon, things were a little more boring. The reason I have to be here is that a lot of the people who give the place I work money to pay me are coming to check up on what we're doing, so we were getting ready a big presentation for them. That meant a lot of making charts and stuff. I asked if I could just draw them on a chalkboard, but, nope.
Then I had dinner with Dr. Kudrat, and Miss Dawn, who are the people I'll be working the most with here. They're both pretty nice. Miss Dawn has four daughters (but they're all grown up now)! And now I'm missing you and Mommy, and writing to you. I hear you're reading Mathilda! I've never read it. Maybe we can read it again together some time. Please give Mommy a big hug from me.
Love, Dad.
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