This morning we (the team and Claire and I) were carrying loads of water pipes for the new water system in Severet village over stepping stones through a river and then up a big bumpy hill along where we'd already dug the trenches with the other teams. We had to keep jumping over the trench at times and ducking under the tree branches which lined the sides! Being fairly sturdy on my feet, on the changing terrain, one of my jobs was to stop at any difficult parts (like the river, or crossing the trench, etc.) and guide the team through them. This was all going well, but what we hadn't realised when we set off, was quite how far we were taking them... It took nearly an hour to walk up and down carrying them bit by bit and we didn't take our big, heavy water container full of drinking water with us. So when we finally reached the end, we realised that everyone was getting really thirsty; but we weren't going to walk them all the way back, get water and all the way back up again to fix the pipes together in the trench - they'd have drank it all by the time we got back and be thirsty again! So Alex (one of our translators and all round jack-of-all-trades) and I went trekking through the trees on the hill to find a road, and then walked along the road for about 20 minutes instead. Then we borrowed a moto from the president of the community - Enson - who's been working with us this whole summer, and drove it through the river (!!!) to pick up the water, and then back along the crazy road with Alex on the front, the water in the middle and me on the back holding - desperately - to the water container! It was really big and heavy and took up most of the room! So we had to keep stopping occasionally, as when we went over big bumps the cooler moved and started pulling me off! And when we went up a big hill, I nearly fell right off the back! But Alex stopped just in time for me to get back on and re-adjust where the cooler was! It was simultaneously the scariest and most fun thing I've done all year! :-D Things I've learnt from today:
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