The ladies making the soil fine in preparation for the mud bricks...
It’s been pretty
hot for the last two weeks and tonight it’s raining for the first time in a
while. The rain isn’t really doing
too much for the heat, but it’s definitely good to have. I’m sure the plants are happy and
everyone else with water tanks – a chance to refill…
And it seems my caravan - with the roof down - isn't leaking at the moment! Yay! Just got to cope with the heat of the day with a low roof...
Tomorrow will be
my first official day back at the Christian school. I’m not too worried, I popped in there today and there were
very few children, only one grade 9…
So they had all the grade 6 – 9s in one class doing some quiet
work. I really hope they’re not
going to give me everybody together in one class tomorrow, I’m not going to be
too happy about that.
Had a nice session
with Buyana today, I think he might finally start catching on to the difference between singular and
plural, noun and verb…
Other than that,
there’s a little 5 year old Afrikaans girl, very hungry for some learning,
staying in the campsite with her parents at the moment. She visits me often and I give her
books and let her practise some scribbling. This evening she sat with me while I was making my favourite
dinner, eggplant, baby marrow, chilli, garlic and tomato with some cous cous
and pumpkin seeds. She quite
enjoyed the cous cous and pumpkin seeds and was very amused by my little
Japanese miso bowls which I like to eat from. She’s decided she’ll visit Japan with me some day.
There is a bunch
of other people in the campsite right now as well. To my right there are 4 guys from Orkney, two older guys and
2 younger sons. Staying in a tent.
They’ve come for a week’s fishing and they’re leaving tomorrow
again. It’s been nip tide, so they
haven’t been very fortunate with the fishing… To my left is another very old caravan with about 4 guys as
well. They’re here to work
apparently, although there hasn’t been any evidence of that so far. They’re here to test the soil and to do
some drilling in preparation for bridge renovations of three of the local
bridges. That’ll be nice if that
actually happens, but we’re not getting excited just yet.
There has been much
talk about the roads around here that are getting fixed and a lot of road
workers were staying here before, paying quite a sum for accommodation. There is also a whole site that has
been built for the road workers that had to cost a good couple of million. Now it has all stopped and all the
workers are gone, because someone didn’t calculate how expensive the diesel is
going to be and now they’ve actually run out of money and can’t continue with
the project. Insane.
Anyway, my little
rondavel is also costing me a little bit more than initially budgeted for, but
hopefully I won’t have to stop.
I’m just waiting for my second lot of concrete bricks to be delivered so
my man can finish the foundation.
The mud bricks will be manufactured soon, just depends how the rain is
going to affect things now. But
the two ladies were there today to ‘make the soil fine’ so that they can make
the bricks. Hopefully this week
still!
I must just put
the word out there for anyone interested in sponsoring some funds towards the
rondavel (it is going to operate as a little library/ reading hut/ perhaps even
a little play school) any contribution will be most welcome! The total cost will be under R10 000…
Please contact me
on my email Lavonnebosman@gmail.com
My bank details
are: Lavonne Bosman, ABSA, Savings account nr: 428174879, Branch code: 632005
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