For our general water, to wash with, we collect the water that flows along the stream which goes down the road that we're on. However, it was diverted so that it could be used for irrigation. We were told it would be back after a couple of days but we were out of water. We had to pump it from another stream that is across the road and just a little down the hill. We could get enough water but it was cumbersome just because of having to get the pipes out each time we needed water.
Those couple of days became Indian days and went on for weeks. Just this morning, I was alarmed to hear the sound of naturally flowing water into our water receptacle again. It must have been more than two weeks that the stream was dry. Things that we might ordinarily take for granted...
(In the village where I went on Thursday)
Since my fire-fighting escapades, I recovered from inhaling the smoke after a couple of hours and life became normal again. (!) The teachers had been asked to prepare a quiz for Saturday morning. It was kind of thrown at us in a meeting again but it didn't take much preparation. I thought of 5 geography questions and the others did the same for their categories. We held it after breakfast on Saturday and I ended up hosting it (meaning I introduced it and just carried on from there). It went well and was a close contest and was fun.
On Friday, I had 2 consecutive lessons with the middle group. They are the most fun to teach as they get involved more than the other groups. Last week, I had started to tell them about space bt didn't get much time so I continued it this week. They had so many questions that I went into explaining things like meteors leaving their marks on planets and how one probably made the dinosaurs extinct. It was eye-opening again to see how little they had learned about these things but as it's a subject I love, I was more than happy to tell them all I could. At the end of it, I had the feeling where you know something has been a great success. It's really good to know I've been able to educate people in more ways than I am expected to.
I decided not to go away this weekend as I wanted to work on things for the next big project. I needed to get my presentation notes in order as well as start looking for somewhere to live in Wolverhampton. I looked on the flat share website but I'll probably have to wait till I get back to really start looking as obviously, I'll have to meet people and visit houses.
When I was sat reading The Valley of Fear, a Sherlock Homes story, I kept getting distracted by thinking about my next plans. I had the idea of seeing if I can get permission to use a closed youth centre to start lots of my ideas which are on my site. If so, I could also hold meetings there which would make it easier to do and maybe I could hold them more often. Basically, it was like a big realisation that I had found what would be perfect. I went out to have a walk and think about what I could do there and as soon as I got back to my room, started writing the letter to the council. I'll need to find out if there indeed have been youth centres closed, but if there are and I can get permission, this could be the catalyst in really getting my movement started. I hope to email the council in the next week (once I know the situation) so I really hope I can get over this first hurdle. If so, things will be looking very good. :)
So, into my last week at this school I go. It feels strange as I've got used to our way of life here and now I have to let it all go. But that's why I like to live in places more than visit them; I can get a good feel for how life is if I'm somewhere for at least 2 months.
With this positive feeling that I have right now, it's not really appropriate to put another quote from 'that book' so I'll leave it for a few days. However, on the news this week, the Chinese have said that they will phase out their theft of organs from executed prisoners over the next five years. By that, they mean that in five years' time, the rest of the world should have forgotten about this issue.
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