The real deal: Project Update

So I've trekked to the village three times since I have been here and to the lake side, many times. It is very trecherous and many of the vehicles we hire to transport materials say they will never return to the lake side.

Its been a bit over two weeks in country and things are moving fine. The community has been very serious and adament about moving materials and starting this project. We visited the site Friday (all of the students, the engineer in Kumba, a plumber needed for laying the pipeline, and a mason/carperter). Sand, gravel, 20 bags of cement, and all of the pipes are now resting in the village!! This is a very important as it was not an easy task and took nearly 2 weeks to accomplish. The catchment site has been cleared and we have traced the pipeline.

We are returning to the village on Monday for a traditional welcome and to officially begin the project (this should be a big party and very interesting). All of the girls here have cameras so I am sure the entire project will be well documented.

You may be interested to know that all of the materials were transported by canoe across the lake and we nearly lossed some of the PVC pipes when one canoe tipped. Men from the village should have dived to recover them today as it is very important we have all of them.

I brought a bunch of soccer shoes and a ball that I will slowly get to the guys in the village. We have already played one match after the first days work (aside from the matches I have played in Kumba) and the Barombi village pitch is quite nice.

We just received another grant that we applied for so thats good because we thought money might run out.

I gotta run to another sunday evening meeting (posted some info about this once before). Time to willlld out!!!