Meetings and deadlines

The last update had us finding enough water for a community of 11,000. The next day Wesley went to visit the district water office and they finally gave us a proposal/design they’d been working on for the past six months. So two new potential projects!

We made the mistake of telling our boss Tim the happy news about the new spring and the district proposal. His eyes lit up and the wheels started turning. “Do you think you could try to put these proposals together before the Christmas break?”

We think he’s nuts, but of course we’ll try. Having never done this before, I’m not sure how long a design and proposal should take, but it seems like it should take more than the two days it takes me. It should certainly have a few more people than me checking for mistakes.

Still, if we could bump the number of proposals completed up to four, and all before Christmas, that would be pretty cool.

In other news, I’ve finished my most recent book, which I think puts the tally at ten, the amount of books I’ve read while here. Few other forms of entertainment helps. My favorite books are:

1) Emergency Sex (and other desperate measures)
2) Under the shadow of the African Sun

I believe I’ve mentioned the second book before, but the first has now taken the top spot in my heart. It’s a non-fiction book about three mid-twenty somethings who first go to Cambodia for the elections in the 1990s and then on to other UN hotspots around the world. And while the writing style alone is worth the read, it’s the way it captures events that I saw through TV and the news that really makes it a hit. I always wondered what it would be like to be at those places first hand, and wonder if perhaps that was what drove me to volunteer here? Highly recommended. And the title certainly draws some glances.

In other news, I finally caught up on my canadian news. Go figure that something interesting would finally happen in Canadian politics while I’m gone. Still, even read in Uganda, it’s pretty cool. Wonder where it’ll all go?