Hello from the Mahadaga team.
Yesterday we spent eight hours in a very dusty bus from Ouagadougou to Mahadaga with a stop in Fada for a quick lunch break. From the windows we were able to see the country side of Burkina Faso as well as a number of small towns we passed along the way. A couple hours outside of Mahadaga we saw a group of Burkinabe men gathering up their cotton to transport it to the cotton mill. When we were five miles outside of Mahadaga, Dave, Kevin, and Charlie got a true cultural experience as they, like other Burkinabe men, rode on the top of the van and enjoyed saying Ca Va to all the children they passed. When we arrived at the compound we piled out of the bus and everyone was covered from head to toe in the red dust of West Africa, and our once black computer bags all have a reddish hue to them.
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| Left to Right: Jean, Kate, Charlie, Dave, Randy, and Kevin |
This morning we went a local church that was held in a small private Christian school right down the street from the compound. This particular church was in French, Gourma, and sign language and Flo translated into English for us. The beginning of the service consisted of worship and various choirs singing (our group included). The pastor spoke on sanctification. After the service was over, many of the people came to shake our hands and welcome us.
The KWHR Project update for dummies: After settling ourselves in Ouagadougou, we began working on fixing some of our software problems. We have managed to increase the brightness of our displays, debug the code of the function that keeps record of daily energy usage, and fixed some other problems caused by the coding illiterate… Jon Martin (cough cough). Just kidding. But really! Now that we have made it to Mahadaga, we plan to set up our test rig and begin installations on Monday (since Sunday is the day of rest… something we may have forgotten back in the US).
Thanks for all your prayers.
Love ya ma!
- Mahadaga Team
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