An Unexpected Visitor

Construction is going very well as we continue to build op the walls of the Health Center. For the past several days, We have had the help of another team lead my Jesse Kroeze's Father, Jack which made a lot of our projects much easier. One of those projects included once again attempting to drill a well on property. Even after the efforts of a professional driller, we were unable to penetrate the rock layer about twenty feet down, so the newest plan is to have local diggers dig down to the rock, break through it, and then use our equipment to drill further. In just about two days, these two guys have dug down around 10 feet! Hopefully we will finally have a clean water source dug within a week or so. My project of late has been adding a ceiling in one of our huts which has proven most complicated as none of the 2x4s are of uniform length or width and all to often resemble the waves of the ocean. So that has been more of an undertaking than it really should have been...but that seems to be the theme of construction work in Africa so I can hardly say Im surprised.

As for the namesake of this post, I was thoroughly surprised to find a Cobra making its way around our huts in the middle of the day. Only after someone almost stepped directly on him, were we able to catch him and deal with him accordingly. Needless to say, we all began carefully taking note of each one of our steps from that day on.

You have to admire our fabulous scaffolding system

These guys are digging MACHINES!