View from the top of the tower-- amazing, eh?
Morgan and Davies putting the windmill on the tower
Part I of the Final Day
At promptly 7am we all met for breakfast, as usual. Just toast and a bit of pineapple today—best not risk filling my system with too much this early on, this is too big of a day to gamble with my digestive tract.
We told Linos to pick us up at 7:30; which is why we planned for 8:00, so you can imagine our surprise when the bus pulled in at 7:30 on the nose.
Jason busted out the football he had brought over for the local kids, and so Alex, Jason and I tossed it around the front lawn while waiting for the others to finish getting ready. Not that I am any good at tossing a football, but it was nice feeling to just be a bunch of 20 some year old folks again rather than 20 some year old folks that are 1000’s of miles from home, in an impoverished country, building a windmill by hand merely to charge 12V batteries.
Finally, we all pack on the bus and head to Homabay for some very last minute hole drilling before we go to site for the last time. Prior to reaching the welding shop, the bus stops early to drop Khanjan, Alex and Mark off so they can do electrical/wiring stuff. Mr. Masango hops off to get his daily paper. Mr. Masango opens the door, and begins to step onto the bus but before he can even put his foot on the step, the bus lurches forward. Linos takes off, leaving Mr. Masango, in his suit and tie, wide eyed and jaw dropped to the dirt road. No one on the bus could control their laughter while Linos has absolutely no idea what he just did. (You may not be lauging and can’t figure out why this was so funny. I guess it’s more of an inside joke. You need to understand how “proper” Mr. Masango presented himself, and the fact that it was him Linos left in the dust, made the entire scene an absolute delight!) It was going to be a good day…
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