Long day in the dirt!

So today was the first of our hard working, dusty, blistering days :) We started out with an early breakfast and a tight schedual before hitting the extremely dusty trail to Chihikwi. When we arrived we began digging 4 large holes around where the well has been dug. the holes had to be a meter wide and 2 meters deep. Back home on Canadian soil this may have taken about a half hour. . . but here the ground is actually as hard as rock or cement. i was expecting hard, but not like this. There were 5 guys on the windmill crew and about 20 other men from around the area helping dig the holes. Our group tried to dig the holes but we sucked so bad that the men would come up and actually take the pick axes and shovels right from our hands and start laughing. haha they seemed to get a kick out of our weakness. while those were being dug our group moved over to where we needed to start digging the trough for the water tanks. it has to be about a meter deep and a half a kilometer long. . . we made it about 1/4 of the lenght and maybe a 1/2 a meter down. it is absolutely exhausting work! all the villagers were so excited that even the women with babies wrapped onto their backs were picking up pick axes and helping. it is so remarkable to see the community help like that. something we would most deffinatly not find back home. there were about 30 little kids all dispersed about the area and they were terrified of us! everytime we would take a step closer to them they would scream and run away. hahah i guess to them WE are the boogie man. for lunch, the women cooked for us. it was really good actually. we had rice and a meat stew. but the meat was really fresh, and we knew this because we watched it get slaughtered in the feild beside us while we worked...i didnt know goat could taste that good, but when lucnch is 3 hours late on a day like today that none of us are really use to, everything tastes good, even if we did see it before it died haha... after lunch for us, the windmill crew ate and we headed back to the compound. we were so exhausted and most of the kids showered, then slept. But for Meaghan, Katherine and myself we decided to go out to the pool. It was pretty cold but still alot of fun. we were later joined by Steve and Cale. we tried to maked human towers but ended up super unsuccessful :( but anyways, i am super tired and need to rest up before another long day.

P.s. Mom i cant upload any pictures....the comp is much to slow :( sorry <3

-Nickey