Meanwhile, we've got sand - Tony us a charge is brought, and Mike and his team have been quick again set to work and laid the foundations for the building of the creche. Mike now controls his last week here in Manzamnyama ... We will miss him, he was a big help and a great motivator and his unwavering optimism. He has brought the construction of the nursery into roles and about his friends and family donations found to be the first cement sacks and buy other stuff. We must now see that the building will also be built ready - even if Mike is not there anymore. But we do not shed tears of farewell - Mike is still a week here.
is a 50 kilo bag of cement!
freshly laid foundations
Mike pressed down the last stone
Last Thursday the Imana Wild Ride Mountain Bike Race was. These crazy people ride in teams of 2 along the coast, and the race lasts five days. The organizers also collect donations for schools in the area. After all, they ride on their tours so by Xhosa villages, and with the Schulenbau action they give the local population also return something. We found the great and decided to support the race and set up a large poster and selling local drinks and food, as this race seems of media helicopters and god knows what all will be accompanied. And we thought, well, a bit of media coverage of our project can not hurt! Everyone was very excited that women and girls were preparing folk dances, music systems were organized, brought out the traditional evening dresses ... and then everything fell into the water. On the day when the bikers came over here, put on the storm. Wild gusts swept over the hills, and at nine clock marked the first drop of rain. Fell? Well, yes. The wind whipped the rain horizontally through the air and the drops hit us like bullets. It was impossible. We waited for about an hour from - Mike, Babalwa, me and some kids - but all were soaked to the skin and shivering in the cold, and out of the bikers was no way in this terrible weather - no TV helicopters, no reporter no companion - and the bikers was certainly not feel like stopping by, wanted to reach as quickly as possible the next milestone and slip into dry clothes. Yes Henu - so the whole operation was just a flop. We try next year.
not yet finished poster ...
Mike on paint
brrr ... Mike and Babalwa in the rain
come over the mountain bikers
is otherwise not much here, and while Aidan in Cape Town, I consider myself in the background and work on the sites or in garden next to our house. Mike has drummed up some donations for the nursery, but we are still in short supply there, and if we can not buy tools and machines to screen- and door frame itself produce, we will have to buy the finished part, which is also expensive. We'll see, maybe Mike can come up with something else. :-) With the already incoming donations now, we will post for the roof of the lodge as soon as Aidan is back and more cement for the walls.
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