I had timed the blog perfectly with my school obligations, today I would have been writing about how well the build had gone and how happy I was with what we have achieved, instead I’ll have to write about one of the most frustrating days ever!I spent all day trying to call Ntate Linakane to see if we could sort out the truck problem! Unfortunately his phone was either on voicemail or with no ring tone, I assume a network issue as I tried every 30 minutes. Although my will is to just go ahead and order the trucks and then deal with it as it happens I’m afraid it might cause further problems so I did not do it. But I do not know how much longer I can wait!
The whole day was not wasted anyway… Pete and Susie (K4L) have a couple of friends over, Paul and Rachel, and they have decided that they wanted to revamp the football pitch at the Blind Centre. Over the weekend we had discussed alternatives of how to it and today we set out to buy the materials needed and they have already started it.
Another achievement of the day was to finally manage to speak to the guy that drilled the borehole at the LCCU. I learnt the capacity (18 L/m) and the depth (50m and water 9m) of it and this will for sure help us in discovering why we are not being able to pump enough water. In the next couple of days I will meet with TED to discuss this.
So all in all, the day was not that bad but not as good as I had hoped, when long ago back in March I started both the project and this blog. But slowly we are getting there…
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