Saturday, March 17, 2007

St. Patty's day

No the festivities have not yet begun, but soon enough I will be scouring the town looking for green food coloring to throw in the Chibuku we'll be enjoying later. If I haven't explained Chibuku yet, it is a maize drink in a carton 5% +/- 2% alcohol by volume. It actually is the closest thing to vomit I have ever tried to drink, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
Tomorrow I'm headed to the bakery to see if they can give me a baking lesson so I can actually use the ovens that are being made back in the village. The last one I made was destroyed by a goat so I may need to make them a bit stronger in the future. On other news my village has formed a committee to begin building a community outpost clinic. The catch- I have to find funding $1500 bucks for cement and iron sheets. I'm applying for a couple grants, but I'm not too hopeful, everybody wants money to be given to them. I don't want this project to fail because they have already decided on the name of the clinic. It will be called "KIT CLINIC" in my honor. So at least I've got that going for me.