Day 4 - no water or electricity
Today is journal writing day, I have spent 7 hours in the internet cafe taking my point form journal and putting it on this site. So not too much happened!
The water has run out at the volunteer camp. The supply was cut off 2 days ago and the water in the reserve tank has all been used. Despite being 5km away from Africa's largest supply of freshwater, it is not expected to come back for several days. There has been no electricity the entire day either. The ACF car is still getting it's regular wash though.
Apparently the mother of the new baby at the refugee camp has no breast milk because she hadn't eaten for 5 days before the party, so the baby has been crying constantly.
Tomorrow Axel, Goldis, Arianna, Jules, Jen, and I are going on a 4 day trip to Rwanda. It takes 7 hours by bus to get to Kigali, the capital. Given the country's recent history it should be pretty interesting! I'm told there are never more than 55 white tourists in the whole country at any one time. I'm sure we'll get lots of attention.
Axel told me a few funny stories before we went to bed. Apparently people here don't care much for the pope, they think it's wrong to worship someone who is human, and when Pope John Paul died there wasn't much of a fuss. But Axel had a conversation with a guy a few weeks ago and nearly brought a man to tears by breaking the bad news to him that Bob Marley was dead. Apparently the man was inconsolable.
As I was going to sleep Peace and Josh, 2 of the locals here, were singing traditional African music just outside my door. It was incredibly beautiful, I hope to hear a lot more of that while I'm here.
The water has run out at the volunteer camp. The supply was cut off 2 days ago and the water in the reserve tank has all been used. Despite being 5km away from Africa's largest supply of freshwater, it is not expected to come back for several days. There has been no electricity the entire day either. The ACF car is still getting it's regular wash though.
Apparently the mother of the new baby at the refugee camp has no breast milk because she hadn't eaten for 5 days before the party, so the baby has been crying constantly.
Tomorrow Axel, Goldis, Arianna, Jules, Jen, and I are going on a 4 day trip to Rwanda. It takes 7 hours by bus to get to Kigali, the capital. Given the country's recent history it should be pretty interesting! I'm told there are never more than 55 white tourists in the whole country at any one time. I'm sure we'll get lots of attention.
Axel told me a few funny stories before we went to bed. Apparently people here don't care much for the pope, they think it's wrong to worship someone who is human, and when Pope John Paul died there wasn't much of a fuss. But Axel had a conversation with a guy a few weeks ago and nearly brought a man to tears by breaking the bad news to him that Bob Marley was dead. Apparently the man was inconsolable.
As I was going to sleep Peace and Josh, 2 of the locals here, were singing traditional African music just outside my door. It was incredibly beautiful, I hope to hear a lot more of that while I'm here.
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