The project started off very well on Tuesday 8th April, the weather was fine, hot, sunny and around 30 degrees for the first 4 or 5 days and good progress was made.Unfortunately it is the rainy season here and it poured with rain for 1 - 7 hours during the night for the next 5 days, making a huge mess of the ground, delaying work and progress on the entrance to SOS Ministries house sites and clearing for the boundary fence for the 100acre property. The Payloader was unable to work much more than 2 or 3 hours for the last 5 days and each day it was warm and sunny but we would be woken by torrential rain, lightening and thunderstorms, altho the days were hot and sunny.
We headed home on Thursday 17th and needed two days of fine weather to dry things out and no rain. GUESS WHAT, the day we left was hot and sunny and it didn't rain at all for 24 hours! typical Deane knew that would happen, we are home for a couple of days , the kids are doing school work for two full days and then we will head back to the village for another week probably.
The project is going slow, there are many disruptions and frustrations with the weather, decisions and the Payloader drivers are amazing, everyday they come they either ask for something else to be added to the contract or for more Ush Shillings. Alex says they see the white man and think he has heaps of money so they will just push and push to see how much they can get!! They had an accident on the way to work in their vehicle one day and they asked us to go and get them out, which we did, then that afternoon they rang and asked Deane for 200,000 Ush compensation cos the accident had happened on the way to Deane's job!!! Of course Deane laughed.