A highlight from the last couple weeks came while delivering rainwater harvesting tank materials to a school several miles from my home. The road was muddy and full of dips and craters.
We arrived and I received the typical muzungu greeting getting surrounded by school children. After unloading the bags of concrete mix and other stuff (so to reduce the weight in the back of the truck...it just happened to be stuck), they went and dumped the bed full of stones in a pile by the second building of classrooms. Getting back on the "road" presented an equally challenging problem [it seems uploading photos to my blog is as well]. After several students and much digging, they were able to leave to get a load of sand. While they were gone, the children and I ran up and down the road gathering rocks to fill in the ditch along the road to help the truck get where it is trying to go. With almost a hundred little hands the amount of work that can be achieved is quite amazing and fun too.
I tried to put more photos, but I think I am quite lucky to have miraculously uploaded the one above. Let me see if the ATM has money now and I can get more time.
Until Next Time...
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