Sorry for the blog entries that follow are currently scarce. The Internet Connection is a real problem because we have zero reception in the house and always have to get out with his laptop in the garden if we are to the Internet. What is quite possible that we can internettlen only in good weather. And lately it has been raining quite often! The course is looking forward to our garden. :-)
Last week, the first three couch surfers were here we spent our first night in Lubanzi and then I took two to Manzamnyama. We wanted to stay in the tree house but it was unfortunately in a rather dilapidated state - after a few months of the non-users - and we have billeted at Babalwas mother, who lives closest to the hill. Aidan was in Lubanzi to continue working on the house - we expect the first guests on 2 April and there are viiiiel do. I spent two days in Manzamnyama with Iona and Luis, both students from Cape Town. The construction site on the hill looked sadly neglected as well as from the tree house, and we have two days only cleaned up, weeded and cut grass, prepare to some extent the place again. The problem now are the tools: We have all curbed after Lubanzi, we must now every time we want to work in Manzamnyama the project, lugging all the tools. And we can no longer go up the hill, as the Land Rover and got out of the VW Beetle is parked in the village. This means much drag ... After three days in Manzamnyama I once again realized how much time does the mere survival. Already only get food and cook and eat half a day.
wait for the project must stop the moment a bit. Over Easter we will be here in Lubanzi guests and it is now important here to put everything on the legs and secure a source of income. When Easter is over, we will again spend more time in Manzamnyama, preparing the tree house again (so that we can accommodate volunteers there) and finish the first house.
Lubanzi here in the first hut is practically ready. Last week, we have the Painted walls: the designs I have created and copied with pencil on the wall, and Aidan has helped me imagine all pretty. Voila! Wall decoration a la Africa.
Aidan on wall painting
Rachel at the drawings on the wall
The finished murals
Copy Today we have the source next to the house fenced. It has two sources here, one almost on the same level as our house, and a slightly higher, coming over the hill. The lower source we have made and Kuhsicher new bottles down to secure our water supply. From this source, then the water is pumped into the two large Wassertänke and dine these Tänke the house, ie shower, toilet, water tap in the bathroom etc.
I wanted to upload a few extra photos but the internet connection is cruel slow and so it is only enough for one ...
The crabs live on the beach in Lubanzi, not the big beach next to us, but the small bay about 5 minutes walk in the other direction.
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