Yesterday I tried my hand at our family bussiness: water distribution to people who don't have running water. So, we take water frfom the government company, which I am sure we pay a lot for, then put in two 250 leter and one 140 leter containers (polytanks) on the back of a big blue truck and drive throuhg potholed roads untill we get to our destination.
Yesterday we need help from on person becuase our hoses weren't long enough and the road to on tank had been washed out, then we went and helped a differnet person with the same problem. The driver said to me, we help each other, it is how we can all do our work. A very nice centiment...
As we went people thought it was halarious for an obruni (white man) to be delivering water people asked the driver things like "where did you find him" and all was jolly as we rolled down the dirt raod.
Also, my computer has been fixed, by time... I tried to use it yesterday and it worked jsut fine, strnage, so now I have my music, my word processing and my music recording devices all back (plus some more pictuires of Kate),

I find it interesting that sometimes we take for granted bits of infrastucture that here are sparse. Traffic lights do exist but are not always followed, roads are not maintained at all, land lines are almost unheard of, water outages are common, washing machines are only for the wealthey (I now have cuts on my hands from doing washing) garbage pick up is expensive and is brobably jsut burnt anyways, there is bottle recycling, and bus services (thouhg total different than ours) but Canada's infrastucture is tightly put together, and we often forget that, I think...

PEACE and LOVE
ALEX