{"id":2356,"date":"2016-07-25T22:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2018-09-23T00:26:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T00:26:37","slug":"july-25th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/07\/25\/july-25th-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"July 25th 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Breakfast was potatoes and rice, ate the potatoes, skipped the rice. Didn’t
\nsleep that well and I am counting the days left in the tent. (6)<\/p>\n

I always feel like we don’t get that much done while we are here. The days
\nare so short and I seem to fall asleep so early. This is likely due to the
\npoor sleeping conditions. The other Mark snores so loud that I can’t
\nimagine how a spouse could handle it. One of the drivers also snores but he
\nis a bit farther away. Aron has a chronic cough that will go on for an hour
\nwhen he first lays down and sometimes during the night. The humidity still
\nbothers me at night, it was cool enough in the 60s, but I always feel
\nsticky. Washing your face would make it feel better, but the water isn’t
\nclean so that isn’t a good Idea so I used a baby wipe instead.<\/p>\n

The jungle noises aren’t bad except if you count the chickens that start up
\nat 3:30am. There are rats everywhere, but they are more like big mice and
\nyou do hear them on the roofs and in the walls. I have seen several of them
\nwithin 5 to 10 feet or so. There were some in the wall last night while we
\nwere working.<\/p>\n

The more I think about problems here the more I feel they are not the
\ntechnical ones. Getting the locals to take ownership of the systems after
\ninstallation seems to be a big problem. It seems they would rather wait
\nuntil we come back to fix the problems than just fix them. They have
\nindividuals that are sharp enough to do it. Some of it is a money problem,
\nnobody wants to pay taxes.<\/p>\n

The food has improved somewhat but I think I still will loose a few pounds.
\nNot much dairy either. Breakfast this morning was fried potato slices on
\nrice. I followed that up with a granola bar. Was going to take a shower
\nlast night, but decided to wait until this afternoon. Too many spiders in
\nthe showers to do that at night. The views at night are something I wish
\nyou could see. The moon is way passed full, but you can see very well by
\nit. Even with a bit of fog in the air, you can see one of the mountains in
\nthe distance with the fog in the valley, all by moonlight. When it clears a
\nbit, the stars are hard to describe.<\/p>\n

There is as always dirt everywhere. Hard to keep anything clean. I have
\nworn the same pants throughout the trip so far and might just wash the legs
\nthis afternoon if the sun is strong.<\/p>\n

We have meetings at 3 of the schools today, I don’t think we will get any
\nactual work done.<\/p>\n

First two meetings went ok, at the second one, they wanted to run an inverter.<\/p>\n

Lunch was carrots, beans, and rice. I was hungry so I ate it all. Meeting
\nat 2:00 was a school that is on the low end of the poverty side. They get
\nlights next year. Back at Kafs. Swella attempted to get a gram of river
\ngold, but they didn’t have any. I took a shower and texted with Antje.
\nWashed just the legs of the pants.<\/p>\n

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Breakfast was potatoes and rice, ate the potatoes, skipped the rice. Didn’t sleep that well and I am counting the days left in the tent. (6) I always feel like we don’t get that much done while we are here. The days are so short and I seem to fall asleep so early. This is … Continue reading “July 25th 2016”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madagascar2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}