Dear faithful blog readers a happy new year! We have already started again with renewed courage to the project. Aidan is back in South Africa since mid-December and is reflected around with various problems. For one, the roof of the lodge met not finished - apparently it was raining all the time, and if the straw is wet, you can not use it. So Aidan had to move quickly makes the campsite to the village, where a covered food was available. Since 21 December are a variety of guests in the village, and went out, campers, people who booked a village hut, Volunteers ... Aidan had his hands full to make it all right. It's still raining a lot, which slows everything constantly. But by mid-January is the Hochsaision to an end, and Aidan is looking forward to a quieter time when he can then re-dedicate the garden and various other projects.
I'm still working in Switzerland and in the meantime in the office in Zurich Oerlikon. My job will last until early February and late February I fly back to South Africa. So I would have enough time in February for talks over the project ... again, if you know somewhere in space that would be suitable for your report!
After we both had a few months away and were able to gain some distance from the village and from the project, we are now going to reschedule. One year we have already spent on the clock. In October 2008 we moved to the Wild Coast, blue-eyed and full of idealism, just to see what belongs to us so on, and how everything is. Meanwhile, we have one year of experience, we know better what we have to do it, and where the problems lie. From this we can now make new plans, and start with energy and enthusiasm into the next year. I look forward again to return to South Africa ...
