Tuesday and Wednesday
Sorry I didn’t put anything up yesterday. We were in town til late and didn’t get home til after 10, so I just went to sleep. Not much happened worth writing about yesterday.
Dr. Addae told me that our work was on the radio. We have put up 8 reservoirs in an area and fill them by tanker. Apparently, someone on the radio was saying that every year around Christmas (the height of the dry season), things are really bad water-wise, but this year, it will be better because of the presence of an NGO—us. That was heartening to hear and gives me even more incentive to come up with 35 grand we need to put up 12 more tanks and buy another truck to fill them.
Today I got tear-gassed. Well sort of. I was walking by the police station, which is a large collection of buildings and barracks, and all of a sudden, lots of coughing people started moving away from it. And then I started coughing and my eyes started watering. I am not sure what it was, but tear gas makes sense. It was probably an accident. Regardless, it was unpleasant, although I don’t think I got it very bad. Another experience! I wonder what’s next.
On my way back to the office, I passed a man selling ties and one jumped out at me. A Habs tie. It’s ugly, but I promised myself that I would rescue the first piece of Habs merchandise I saw for sale here. And at 80 cents, it didn’t break the bank.
I’ve been planning for our meeting tomorrow about the newspaper. I’m excited about this; I hope we can get it up and running early next year. If so, I’ll try and involve myself as much as possible in it.
It’s now evening and I just watched the news. They had a piece on the climate change conference going on in
posted by Tony at 1:45 p.m.
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