of sweat and showers...

Depending on what you are doing, you are either hot and sweaty or just plain sweaty. Henk hasn't worn a T-shirt yet as they are almost impossible to get off after a few hours of work!

This being the rainy season there is thankfully enough water for numerous showers, although if it has been cloudy during the day one can not necessarily expect hot water (a small drawback of solar heating!).

Our neighbours Peter and Diane invited us to attend church with them: we enjoyed the two and a half hour service very much. Beside an elderly gentleman we were the only whites in a congregation of some 1100 from many of the different islands, Fiji and an African family.

This week Margreet and I did more work on the new kitchen:

painting, 

building a back splash, 

installing a new faucet, 

rerun the cold water feed and 

installing an extra electrical socket and installing the drain pipe...

by Thursday afternoon it is pretty well all done except for a gas tabletop stove and the fridge. It is fun to be able to do these things together.

In between:

on Tuesday we took two vehicles to the airport to pick up four WA (Wycliffe Associates) construction guys: they will help with installing eight 2000 gallon tanks. These should help a lot in alleviating chronic water shortages. The city water system is getting old and tired and there can be weeks of no water at all.

Margreet spent Wednesday morning shopping for food supplies for the WAs for the next three weeks. 

One of the local workers, Max, was trying to lay out 100 meters of one inch plastic pipe..of course that's impossible to do by yourself, so Henk lent a hand (well, both hands and feet and back).

 It took two hours and buckets of sweat. In the end we had to cut it in two places after all....a real shame after all that hard work and of course the next morning we found out that the fittings needed are not available locally!

On Thursday morning Margreet and I made a 'house call'. The family that now lives in the apartment where we stayed two years ago had some minor mechanical problems, which we were able to fix swiftly. 

While Margreet was baking muffins and getting supper ready, Henk played basketball with six of the kids living on the centre...to give it a real handicap it was six against one!

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