Hey All,
I only have a couple minutes before I have to head to bed, but I wanted to give you a quick update. We don't have internet at the guest house we are staying in like we were told we would, so we're working off John's SIMcard in a flash drive thing when we can, sorry I haven't been able to post more.
Quick update:
--We made it to Aflao yesterday :) right after we got in to the city and had our bags unloaded we had to go present outselves to the king of Aflao-TRUE STORY. He's a realy king, his dad was king and so was his and so on, he get's to rule the government in Aflao, mainly settling disputes and deciding land zoning and ownership, but I'm still not quite sure how he relates to the national government....pretty cool though right?!
--After that we got to go to the children's home and see the site where the children are living now. Our project is to design a new facilty for them on another piece of land becasue this one floods. That's a pretty long story, good one, quite thought provoking, hopefully I can write about it later.
--Today we spent most of the morning at the new site and started the surveying process. We walked boundary lines and measured them, then in the afternoon the architects had meetings with out team leader and the leaders of the local ministry to start getting a vision for the project on paper. Even though I'm not an architect I sat in on this, it was amazing to hear the dreams for the land!
--Tomorrow I'm going back to the site with the other civil engineers and the survey team, we're leaving at 6AM so I have to get to bed soon, but that means we'll probably be done a little early, so hopefully I can write a post on my computer that's a little more fun and less business and the upload it tomorrow night.
Check back tomorrow night, of at whatever time this is for you (afternoon I'm thinking?)
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