Bread baking sequel

On Tuesday we held another bread baking workshop
(people mixing dough in picture). It was better than
the first one. It rained very hard at one point and we
were all huddled under a leaking zinc roof, it was fun.

It has been a pretty good week, we received a shipment
of diesel for the generator. We were about 2 weeks
struggling without electricity. It cramps any computer
literacy at the school and it just plain makes everything
difficult. When they brought the fuel there was a
little problem with the hookup and we had to wait
another day for someone to come. What it was is
that the diesel has a feed and a return. They crossed
them and it was a mess as tubes flew off and
spewed diesel all over the engine. But I think we
learned something and I did something crazy, I
put a tag on each one. One says feed the other
return, hopefully that will be the last time for that
problem.

We cleaned off the netball court and the girls started
playing again. It gives life to the center of town. They
had stopped playing for over 3 months. This group
is a younger one, mostly teenagers, so hopefully it
will keep a few out of the bars a little more.

We fixed a computer at one of the offices so that it
could burn DVDs. Not a big deal other than the
secretary said that he would burn some DVDs and
charge a little, then use the profits to buy new ink
cartridges for their printer. That's the first time I
every heard of anyone here speaking of anything
remotely related to sustainability. So, got to see
it to believe it.

Last Monday we went to the big city Katima. Our
village is almost exactly in the middle of a game
reserve. So anytime one drives down the road one
never knows what one will see. Last Monday was
an exciting day. About 30 kilometers outside the
village we see a big hyena dead in the road. Even
dead they look a little dangerous.

Better yet was the male elephant on the side of the
road. I guess we kind of came up behind him
(he was on the side of the road) and scared him.
He turned towards us with his ears all out and
chased us for a little ways. It is also cool to hear
the elephant make the trumpeting sound. Just
like in the movies or the animal planet show.

So that's it for this week.