Well a stormy day, literally. Firstly it rained. And rained. And thundered. And was there lightening. Now the camp site is a mud pit. This is tragic as we have not fixed all the drainage and there is every chance of all sorts of diseases catching hold. Maleria is already well founded in the camp and we had a case of typhoid reported today among the population.
On the other side of the coin, we succeeded in getting a new drain dug over the weekend behind the toilet block, so much of the green water sitting on the ground near the camp office was cleared just in time.
To add to the fun we had another earthquake today. 4.4 on the Richter scale. I had just got back to DHQ when it struck. All of the foreigners stood there looking at each other wondering what was going on. All of the nationals left and went home. We didn't realise that's where they had gone for a short time afterwards, leaving just a few of us there wondering what had happened.
One of our team, Tony, didn't realise there was a quake - he was driving in a truck and couldn't tell the difference.
We got a lot of signage up around the camp today, too. That doesn't sound like a big deal, but it's like putting up street signs. I now can see where each of our 15 sectors are and even make a kind of address up for people. This is important, say like last night when a lady died of a heart attack and we had to get her out to the morgue. We could tell them to go to sector 15, house 8. And more importantly, they could find her.
Otherwise, today included a camp committee meeting, some cash for work payments being made and resolving some discrepancies in our registration system.
A big day.
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