Sundown on a blue Monday

So that's what you're seeing in the above picture.
It was taken with cell phone so the quality isn't there
but it is more symbolic of the day.
After returning from the two week workshop it was
just plain ... man, dem brakes are locked and we don't
know how to get the bus moving again. As on every
new Monday there is the dread of another week and the
hope of another week, depends on where you're standing,
I guess. Here because of the general stoppage of the old
MO-mentum, it was a sense of dread.
Of course in this development game the winds can shift
without warning and at a minute's notice. There ain't no
danger of getting blown away but, there was some
advances.
Things like, the women playing netball again after a couple
of weeks disappearance. Reason is that the lady who is
the leader was out of the village. Now she's back and so
is the sport. Should be able to play at anytime and not
dependent on one person to get it moving. Just like the
person who needs someone else to basically carry them
to the gym.
There was a meeting for some two week training courses
which consist of about eight different disciplines and it is
a great thing for the out of school youth. Especially out
here so far from anywhere.
The trees were finally removed from the new soccer field
and it is a good thing. It is just in this case the participation
is kind of slow in coming. I think that the best way to
describe when that soccer field will be ready is by using
the quote from Michelangelo when the Pope asked when
the Sistine Chapel ceiling was going to be ready ...
It'll be finished when it's finished.
The school has started a debating club and there are 15
students who signed up. Pretty good as far as I'm concerned,
it's just that the teacher is totally new at it so it will take
some work to get it going. It is also a two week vacation
for the school so it will be a while before that club is
up and going.
But the biggest problem as far as work is concerned is that
the generator pooped out a few days before I returned
from the workshop. I had been able to receive a lot of
electronic media to use to get the technology/computer
side of the education in motion. There is hope as the
word is that by the end of this week they will be bringing
another generator. Not wanting to sound like a killjoy
but ... I think that it was they said about the other
one they took away in something ... '2005'.
So, for me it is good to see something that resembles
progress happening. I guess the road to change is
marred by a lot of ups and downs.
So, this Blue Monday is almost history and that is the
update from somewhere out there in the Bwabwata
Game Reserve.