Muli uli? Makola! (How are you? I'm fine!)
Day 1 we did 10 wells close (ish) to Lundazi where we are staying. We had 2 pretty deep wells (about 30ft) and used up all of our long (new) pipe at well #9. But we had enough left to splice for the tenth well. Many of our wells have 6 feet of water (being used to team 2 and farther into dry season it often comes up shorter). One of the wells was installed at a school, Kimberly and I did 'Head, shoulders, knees and toes' with them as the installation was happening. We received a chicken at each well along with fresh sugar cane, bananas, cassava, greens. We were told at one village they waited for us the day before and had a whole celebration planned (with homebrew available!) But that many had to go to a funeral that day. (Might have been safer for us!)
9 wells on day 2 even after getting lost on the way to the office to load pipes and get Isaac, a flat tire before the first well (our spare was padlocked in but the other truck was just behind us so we took theirs), got stuck in the sand twice, both pipe racks were cracked (only one was our fault)! So many things that never happened to me on previous trips...all in one day! Many ground nuts that day. One mama sent the child who caught a chicken for us back because it was too scrawny!
6 on day 3...varied gifts of chickens, maize, rice, greens, tomatoes, ground nuts, and beans. Got some dancing in with the women! Isaac told us that one of the youth was surprised to see white women because she thought that all azungus were men.
Saturday is a half day and we got 4 wells done. As we drove up to one well they were jumping up and down and singing! We knew we were in the right place! So much fun!
Down time with a total of 29 wells...time to sleep, read, and get ready for church...
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