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I have now been traveling for 2 weeks and have 4 weeks to go. Last night was the first night back in the Projects House. Overnight the temperature stayed around 93 in the bedroom with no breeze and no power for the ceiling fan. After 5 nights in a hotel room with A/C it was a hard night. About 4 AM a little breeze came through the window. By 6 AM the temperature dropped to 89. The Cathedral turned on their generator for about an hour between 7 AM and 8 AM so I got an hour of ceiling fan. In the middle of the afternoon the Cathedral had a short funeral so we got another two hours of ceiling fan. Tonight it looked like rain for a short time but all we got was dust and wind so far. I am hoping for rain. Rain can drop the temperature 10 or more degrees F.
Today I had a meeting with Emmanuel Sabiya the CEO of the Health Board. Last week before before the Malaria, He had given me drawings their new architects had made from the sketches I had provided him for a possible training center with accommodations. They had taken my sketches and made the buildings larger. My sketches were for training small groups of people and he envisions times where their could be up to 50 people attending a meeting rather than small group training. Over the weekend at the hotel I had taken their drawings and added tables and chairs and showed that the training room as his architects designed could hold 70 people with tables and chairs. Without table and only chairs we could probably fit 100 people in the room. He decided that this was too large. We will take 2 meters off the length and 0.6 M off of the width and have the quantity estimators make a cost estimate. '
For the accommodation hall they took the most complicated of my sketches and made it a little larger. Emmanuel was hoping that we could build the training hall and two accommodation halls (one male and one female) with in the budget. The extra couple meters did not actually add any more beds but a larger center aisle between beds. The hall would hold about 20 people. Before the Malaria Yakubu and I had discussed the accommodations building and he thought it should be simplified. If we felt the need for instructors to have better accommodations we can rent them rooms at the local hotel with by car is less than ten minutes away. Over the weekend I had taken the accommodations hall outline and rearranged it from 5 room to 3 large room Each room has two connected bathrooms. This design will hold 30 people dormitory style. Emmanuel liked this design and we will have see if the quantity estimators can make an cost estimate without having to have a new set of drawings from the architects.
Later in the afternoon I met with a portion of the Deaf Church Construction Committee and made some progress on getting this project back on track. On Monday one of the primary movers on the committee a former Danish Missionary now married to a retired Bishop will be leaving for holiday in Denmark. The former chairman who has not handed over his notes and files to the new Cathedral Vicar will be in town on Friday to attend a wedding on Saturday. We are trying to arrange a committee meeting to bring the new chairman ( New Vathedral Vicar Pastor Gideon) updated so he can carry on the construction. Pastor Ruth will also be leaving Monday to fly up to Abuja for her Tuesday Interview at the US Embassy.
Later in the day we worked out a new design for a temporary water supply system for the Demsa Health Referral Center Renovation project. We cut the previous cost estimate and we can get this concept completed quickly. Then as the master plan for the entire facility comes together over the next couple weeks we will have time to located a position for a new industrial sized borehole that will be able to service the entire facility.
In between all of this we were able to drive to a shopping area and buy some more grocers for me and four bags of drinking water sachets. This time I found some Skippy peanut butter and my favorite breakfast cereal (Fruit and Fiber). My breakfast is usually oatmeal with sugar, cinnamon and salt, a cup of tea and a glass of milk from powdered milk. Now that I have Fruit and Fiber can exchange it for the oatmeal. Variety is good.
This evening I walked to the market and bought three hard boiled eggs and a 50 Naira bag of peppers. I am not sure of the peppers here. I was hoping the little ones were hot and the bigger ones more mild. They were the only peppers in the market. I opened a can of sardines and used the oil to fry up onions and peppers, Added curry spices then the sardines and a little water. I boiled some rice, I should have done the rice first. This time my fingers were starting to sting for the hot and hotter peppers and with the kitchen well over 100 degrees F I was wiping my brow. While the rice boiled I was in the bathroom washing my hands and face.
I have eaten dinner with some tea. Whole sitting near the office window. The batteries on my laptop and my phone are about exhausted. The phone provided a portable Hot Spot Wi Fi connection. It still indicates 2G data speed but is much faster and more reliable here than at the hotel.
There are no activities at the Cathedral tonight so I will probably not have power overnight. Right now there is a little breeze and the temperature reads 92 on my radio in the bed room. With a little luck a storm will come through or the national power grid will send some power to this section of town. It is 8 PM I will take a bucket shower, brush my teeth and listen to the BBC or Voice of America on the radio. Oh, and sweat.
I am not going to proof read this. Just publish. I hope it makes some since. Next time I get the battery recharged I will edit its a bit.
I have now been traveling for 2 weeks and have 4 weeks to go. Last night was the first night back in the Projects House. Overnight the temperature stayed around 93 in the bedroom with no breeze and no power for the ceiling fan. After 5 nights in a hotel room with A/C it was a hard night. About 4 AM a little breeze came through the window. By 6 AM the temperature dropped to 89. The Cathedral turned on their generator for about an hour between 7 AM and 8 AM so I got an hour of ceiling fan. In the middle of the afternoon the Cathedral had a short funeral so we got another two hours of ceiling fan. Tonight it looked like rain for a short time but all we got was dust and wind so far. I am hoping for rain. Rain can drop the temperature 10 or more degrees F.
Today I had a meeting with Emmanuel Sabiya the CEO of the Health Board. Last week before before the Malaria, He had given me drawings their new architects had made from the sketches I had provided him for a possible training center with accommodations. They had taken my sketches and made the buildings larger. My sketches were for training small groups of people and he envisions times where their could be up to 50 people attending a meeting rather than small group training. Over the weekend at the hotel I had taken their drawings and added tables and chairs and showed that the training room as his architects designed could hold 70 people with tables and chairs. Without table and only chairs we could probably fit 100 people in the room. He decided that this was too large. We will take 2 meters off the length and 0.6 M off of the width and have the quantity estimators make a cost estimate. '
For the accommodation hall they took the most complicated of my sketches and made it a little larger. Emmanuel was hoping that we could build the training hall and two accommodation halls (one male and one female) with in the budget. The extra couple meters did not actually add any more beds but a larger center aisle between beds. The hall would hold about 20 people. Before the Malaria Yakubu and I had discussed the accommodations building and he thought it should be simplified. If we felt the need for instructors to have better accommodations we can rent them rooms at the local hotel with by car is less than ten minutes away. Over the weekend I had taken the accommodations hall outline and rearranged it from 5 room to 3 large room Each room has two connected bathrooms. This design will hold 30 people dormitory style. Emmanuel liked this design and we will have see if the quantity estimators can make an cost estimate without having to have a new set of drawings from the architects.Later in the afternoon I met with a portion of the Deaf Church Construction Committee and made some progress on getting this project back on track. On Monday one of the primary movers on the committee a former Danish Missionary now married to a retired Bishop will be leaving for holiday in Denmark. The former chairman who has not handed over his notes and files to the new Cathedral Vicar will be in town on Friday to attend a wedding on Saturday. We are trying to arrange a committee meeting to bring the new chairman ( New Vathedral Vicar Pastor Gideon) updated so he can carry on the construction. Pastor Ruth will also be leaving Monday to fly up to Abuja for her Tuesday Interview at the US Embassy.
Later in the day we worked out a new design for a temporary water supply system for the Demsa Health Referral Center Renovation project. We cut the previous cost estimate and we can get this concept completed quickly. Then as the master plan for the entire facility comes together over the next couple weeks we will have time to located a position for a new industrial sized borehole that will be able to service the entire facility.
In between all of this we were able to drive to a shopping area and buy some more grocers for me and four bags of drinking water sachets. This time I found some Skippy peanut butter and my favorite breakfast cereal (Fruit and Fiber). My breakfast is usually oatmeal with sugar, cinnamon and salt, a cup of tea and a glass of milk from powdered milk. Now that I have Fruit and Fiber can exchange it for the oatmeal. Variety is good.
This evening I walked to the market and bought three hard boiled eggs and a 50 Naira bag of peppers. I am not sure of the peppers here. I was hoping the little ones were hot and the bigger ones more mild. They were the only peppers in the market. I opened a can of sardines and used the oil to fry up onions and peppers, Added curry spices then the sardines and a little water. I boiled some rice, I should have done the rice first. This time my fingers were starting to sting for the hot and hotter peppers and with the kitchen well over 100 degrees F I was wiping my brow. While the rice boiled I was in the bathroom washing my hands and face.
I have eaten dinner with some tea. Whole sitting near the office window. The batteries on my laptop and my phone are about exhausted. The phone provided a portable Hot Spot Wi Fi connection. It still indicates 2G data speed but is much faster and more reliable here than at the hotel.
There are no activities at the Cathedral tonight so I will probably not have power overnight. Right now there is a little breeze and the temperature reads 92 on my radio in the bed room. With a little luck a storm will come through or the national power grid will send some power to this section of town. It is 8 PM I will take a bucket shower, brush my teeth and listen to the BBC or Voice of America on the radio. Oh, and sweat.I am not going to proof read this. Just publish. I hope it makes some since. Next time I get the battery recharged I will edit its a bit.
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