Money makes the dog dance.
Tomorrow we start repairing the school at Morne Michel. I am
both eager and anxious to get things underway. It is starting to rain more and
more (every other afternoon/evening now) and rain delays can seriously drive up
the budget for the project.
The plan is to stay up on the mountain, camping on-site for
the week and returning on Saturday. We have ten bags of water, five bags of
rice, three bags of spaghetti, and several pounds of other provisions for food
and sustenance. It is going to be several consecutive days where I will not
speak any English or see any Americans, the longest time in my
life without speaking or hearing English. It’ll be like Avatar except without
the special effects (although I’m not sure what Avatar is exactly without the
special effects).
I’ll also be going several consecutive days without
showering. On the other hand, sweating that much will do wonders for my pores
(right?).
In other news, I went to another remote village on Friday to
repair their water system. I brought a backpack full of couplings, compression
valves, 90s and other PVC piping only to realize that the issue was a
galvanized union. On the bright side, we keep plenty of unions in our depot…in
Cange…darn. Regardless, we should be able to fix that later on this week. I
might send one of our employees with the replacement pieces and let them handle
it. It’s a quick fix.
I’ll be sure to take plenty of pictures of our progress up
on the mountain. I don’t know for sure when the next post will be but it will
most likely not be until the weekend.
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