8:30am     Just as planned, the ceremony started at 4:30pm.  The deputy officer and police chief of the town came for the opening.  We had sodas, a few speeches, a ribbon cutting and that was that; the new site is officially open!  Two of us (volunteers) helped the mama’s cook last night, I think we actually sped up the process too!  At the new site a volunteer had donated a small gas stove to cook on, it helps so much, water boils 20x faster then the old ones. 

I’ve always thought of myself as a pretty patient person, but I have definitely become even more patient here.  Yesterday the tent we eat dinner under was completely demolished by the winds and rain.  The poles all broken.  The workers were trying to find a way to put it back up using the materials they had; wood and wire.  I left for about 10 minutes and come back to find it a complete mess, they had tied the sides of it up off the ground with wire everywhere (at perfect neck height so you would easily get clothes-lined if you had to walk around at night).  I try and suggest a few things that could help and they looked at me like I was a genius.  It was just a different way of thinking about things, they didn’t look ahead to see the whole picture and just did one thing at a time hoping it would all come together.  But how I’ve learned to problem solve is to see the big picture and plan it out before taking action.  Another example of just living in the moment is that one of the men had hired donkeys to carry our beds to the new site, but when they delivered them he hadn’t thought about how to pay them.  The lifestyle of just truly living in the moment is kind of nice, just a huge change from my life of always planning for the next exam and such. 

The new huts are very nice.  They have cement floors so you can take your shoes off and not get your feet dirty…ah the small things in life.  Out the window you can see the lake and at night there’s a row of lights on the lake from the fishermen’s lanterns.