Yesterday I saw my first lunar eclipse. It was beautiful. We sat outside the staff housing and watched the sky. Living in Houston, I have never seen that many stars in the sky.

Al and I have gone through all the donation boxes that CLI received from Medical Bridges and we are almost done with the inventory. We moved hospital beds into the rooms and started stocking the rooms with general medical equipment. We thought it would be a good idea to add some shelves in each of the treatment and storage rooms of the clinic. So for the past few days, some of the workers have been working on getting the shelves built.

During that time, we have been helping around the site. We moved dirt, washed kitchen items, and helped with anything that we could. While we were filling the dirt in buckets and transferring it onto a tracker and some of the women workers taught us how to carry the buckets on our head. Surprisingly, it was much easier to carry the load that way. The women here are so strong! I don’t know how they do it. They carry such large loads on their heads and keep them balanced.

From the time I arrived to CLI till now, I have learned many more words in Chichewa. I learned how to say “how are you”, “I’m fine”, “good morning”, and much more. Now, whenever I pass by the workers from the community, I greet them in Chichewa and they love it.

Next week, we are expecting two new wind turbines to be installed. They are much bigger and better than the three ones that are already on the site. I am excited that I am getting to witness so much of the pioneering of this project.

Bye!

Sabha