Thursday, July 05, 2007

There has been some major digging going on around here. First our neighbours had their well dug 3 meters deeper as it had already run dry. Now all around the top of our hill and near our school, there are pipes being laid for air (water) minum (drink). Only you can’t actually drink the water that is going to go through these pipes. So what has been happening is that there will be a group of about ten guys who’ll start digging up along side the road. The first guy has a sledge hammer and he starts the whole process. The next guy has a big pick ax type thing and he starts breaking up the pavement (they’re digging up the side of the road, not the grass alongside the road as there are many parts with no grass, just a cobblestone sidewalk or nothing). The next bunch of guys have hoe type things and they dig up a trench. The next group of guys lays the pipe and attaches the pieces to eachother. Then there’s another group of guys that puts all the dirt back in the trench. The last couple guys have a machine (the first of the bunch to actually use a machine) that vibrates up and down to flatten the dirt down again. That’s as far as they go, so far no one has actually fixed the pavement. We’ll see what happens after we get a few days of torrential rain…

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