What a thing !!!!! Perhaps that was a stress to install everything to show the World Cup messages! But let's start from scratch ...
the projector and all the associated stuff we had already purchased. The large speakers have been sent to us via courier to Mthatha. The DSTV box, we also worried, and the satellite dish. Usually comes by a technician, To install the satellite dish, but we are here in the middle of nowhere, and not a technician will come here, too time consuming. Thank God Aidan is indeed quite versed in just about everything. :-) But the building was still backward and not forward ready ... we were flat out, trim the sheets to paint, and nail the roof, but since then every day 10-20 kids showed up who wanted to work for tickets, we were not progressing. It is difficult to work yourself if you have to play babysitter while still ... The deal is that a ticket costs 15 Rand. A day's work is usually paid with 50 edge, which is 8 hours, so we said, 15 Rand is 2 hours. Similarly, the villagers can bring building materials worth 15 Rand, for example, a bundle of straw, 10 mud brick, etc. The idea was to attract more people came for the project and bring together, and of course, promote the construction of the building. Unfortunately, almost all kids came to work, which cost us more time than really helped, but at least is what Henu. And so we left it mainly tow stones from nearby fields, cutting grass, digging gardens or whatever. Until the day of the opening match of South Africa - Mexico, we had brought 110 tickets at the man ...
On Thursday evening, a day before the match, we got pure still no channels. Also had the day before started to rain, which made our work, almost impossible. With the many stones that had brought the kids, we have begun to build a stone wall. But on Thursday and went from the cement and we could not go to the shop and buy more because the rain had made the road impassable. Standstill. As it slowly eindunkelte we threw to the generator, featured on the projector and the DSTV box and began to search for a signal. Unsuccessful. We went through all the options, moving the dish a bit to here to there and a bit called, three times in the DSTV helpline - nothing. Not a single station. Uiuiuiuiui. Clock to half past eight in the evening was Aidan in the rain and turned around with the satellite dish. Finally we had to blow the retreat - we were soaking wet and shivering and tired and hungry and all.
Friday morning Aidan threw back to the generator and tried again, and finally we found - THANK GOD - a few stations, but not SABC1, the main station we needed. But after all, was great sport available, and showing the game live. Huff saved! The rest of the day was spent to nail plates around the house to darken it. Ah, and about 10 clock in the morning came Maputis mother with two geese under their arms! We had promised her that we buy her two geese, but it has they never brought us when we went from back to Manzamnyama Lubanzi, and now apparently she needed money, so they brought the geese. Crap, where am I now out with 2 geese? So I had to run down into the garden, making it into my former tomato garden in a temporary enclosure geese, and all this while we were at rumstressen to install the projector and so on and so on! And the rain had just stopped for the first ...
BUT - everything is OK. At three clock wobbled the first few guests, and Babalwa stood with me at the gate to check tickets. At four in the clock and were all sat in our huts patched together and watched football. Yay hopp Bafana Bafana tröööt, tröööt tröööööööt!
Tolikile and his aides lay the foundations for the first Rondavel
Tolikile and Maxwell work on
four men for the job! :-)
Thursday evening - the floor we rammed
aaand Friday: we are watching football!
despite wind and rain and cold, almost 80 people in the hut
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