Update: 14th May
What to do with these saturdays?
Most of the staff has left for a trip to the coast. One of our electricians is there too. We are still waiting for the parts for the dental chair. The sun is shining. The hospital lays quietly in the rainforest.
So we eat a quick breakfast and get to work with an enthusiast as if it would be the first day. We call up the second electrician and the plumber and start working. Lights get fixed to the ceiling, wiring gets redone, new pover sockets are fixed to the walls in differnt locations. We instruct three holes in the walls. And of we go. The guys are equaly enthusiastic. At some point we have prepared all we can do. The parts we need are in the storage and that is closed on weekends. So the two can knock of after lunch and enjoy the day with there families.
Us? Not a chance. Annika started running around the hospital scouting for locations for dustbins. The hospital will need a proper waste separation to use the incinerator. And while Annika return to our house to design labels for the dustbins, I head to the incinerator.
If you want to get someone to use a new system the system will need to offer some kind of advantage. To get the burner of the hospital waste to use the incinerator it will have to be convenient. We will extend the foundation, create a place to put a wheelbarol for the ashes and pave a way to the disposal pit. The problem: there is thick bush filled with half burned needels, cans, ash and broken glass all around. So I spend the afternoon in the sun with a pick-axe, a shovel and my hurting hands. Two bottles and four hours later, the place is ready to pour some concrete.
When you want something to get done, you have to put yourself in there in the front.
After dinner, an ice cold chocolate milk from a tiny store, we have a propper blackout and wait in the moonlight for the power talking about decisions in life
A truely well used day.
