Eve's Day...

The place here is positively humming with activity, there is a team of workers digging out the foundations for hut number three - a new building to accomodate four single rooms for volunteers. (I am very excited to be one of those to score a room in this hut as it is nestled into the shady garden with lots of spots for favorite plants such as fragrant ginger lillies and such...but, anyway, that will come later)


Aggie's in the kitchen cooking up a storm, boiling up some beans to add to the colourful mamas salad, which gets served up to mamas and kids after their classes in the afternoons, and cooking i-don't-know-what glorious dish for us to feast on for lunch. She has one of our new torch/radios (Whose usefulness is blitzed only by my own trusty lighter/clock/torch - another african purchase, which no one else seems to get quite as excited about, despite the fact that it is also fluro and has glittery bits) blaring with a local radio station and outside the kitchen a few fellas are breaking up the rock that will soon be used in the foundations. The radio is drowned out in bursts by the generator and the odd power tool here and there. Don occasionally rushes past in a blur, trusty toolbag on hip, he is working with still more men on the carpentry in huts one and two.



As for me, I have started the morning with a bit of admin, checking emails, checking some info I have on natural pest control (Tomato seedlings have just been discovered by an army of opportunistic 'wadudu'*, damn) and have been convinced to write a small contribution to our blog spot before I head off into the spring sunshine, it is spring now isn't it? to Kesho Leo to spend the rest of the day planting banana palms, mulching our watermelon seedlings, starting a new compost heap and supervising the progress on our aquifer.

Ahhhh...it's a hard life!

* "Wadudu" - Swahili for bugs!

Posted by: Eve, our Environmental Sustainability Supervisor