Splash away, it's Ramadan!
We live in a country with the greatest electricity problems in Africa. But we also live in a country with a large muslim population and with a muslim president, and we are currently in the muslim season of Ramadan, where adherents fast for the daylight hours, and feast with friends and family after dusk. So the hours of our power rationing have been adjusted: now the power goes off earlier (around 6 am), but comes on by 6 pm, to help get the meals started for the hungry muslims. So our evenings have been less crazy, as we have a little more time to cook, eat, and heat water for baths before bedtime.
You can observe Elijah’s reaction to these developments.
On another note, the water department brought a water line to our project house yesterday. Tomorrow we build an in-ground water storage tank and a septic system. Lots of puns come to mind which I will kindly refrain from divulging.
You can observe Elijah’s reaction to these developments.
On another note, the water department brought a water line to our project house yesterday. Tomorrow we build an in-ground water storage tank and a septic system. Lots of puns come to mind which I will kindly refrain from divulging.
posted by Kevin at 1:36 PM
2 Comments:
Today in my culture of poverty class Oneil Tankersley pulled up your blog and started to talk about y'alls work with development. (he also mentioned something about you burning down one of the houses at HUT?) Then he remembered I interned with y'all and made me talk about your work. I hope I did you all justice. Hope the house renovations are going smoothly. What area did y'all end up in? Tell everyone I said hi.
Oh, and the picture of Elijah is absolutely adorable.
What a cutie! So glad your electricity situation is better.
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