Saturday 22 May – Day ? Lost count still

I’ve been really very busy lately… too busy to write the blog as getting me and my laptop somewhere with electricity has been a challenge, and the whole process of writing up and then going to the internet café after is so slow. I couldn’t fit it in between meetings and having to go home to cook lunch every day. Still I’m at Kebaa’s house now and sitting outside under a tree. Kebaa kindly says I can come and plug in my laptop whenever I like, even when there’s nobody here as he has electrical sockets outside the house under the verandahs.

The participatory needs assessment is in full swing now, with meetings every day. Usually one in the morning at about 10am and another after lunch at around 4pm. And that’s as much as is possible in one day here. It’s hot. It’s already started raining at night time – I see the marks in the sand under the corrugate roofing of the house where the rain has fallen. I thought at first that the watery indentations in the sand along the line of the front door was Samurai pouring water to walk through the line of water when he wakes up in the morning after a bad dream as I’ve learnt is part of the culture here, but it can’t be… the line of water goes all around the house. The rain is on its way.