It's day four of Dar's WATER CRISIS! Yes, the big news here is that on Monday the main water pipe in Dar broke! We have been without water for four days now and it's crazy here. On Wednesday the city finally brought Magi Safi trucks to campus. These are huge petro-looking trucks that carry water. People can go fill up there 5 gallon buckets and carry their water home on their head if they can fight through the bucket crowd to get water. I think the whole event is best described by Sam who called it the great migration. It literally is like the wilderbeast migration in the Serengeti as hundreds of students descend on these trucks in a desperate rush for what we all take for granted in the states: water. The crazy part is this water isn't even "safe" by our standards. It still needs to be boiled before drinking. So, I tried to document this colorful, plastic-filled migration for all to see. By the sound of it, it's likely there will not be water for sometime, so it looks like I'll be coming home on a 5 day showering, water hiatus. I bet my family will be excited to see me in the airport! Also troubling from the whole water problem is the backup in the toliet. You can't flush when there isn't water and after 5 days on a floor with about 20 guys, you can imagine how pleasant the stench is!



Enjoy these pics of the water and other university sites and drink some tap water for me!

Dar Water Crisis



I'll be putting a few more pics up when I return home too so check back. The other news here is that Bekah left today at 3.30pm. We had a great time together seeing the country and it was fun to show my new home to someone. Now she's off to play in the land of Lord of Rings...which we all went to last night!



We had a surprise birthday party for Anna that climaxed with the 9.30pm showing of LOR. It was hilarious because we got to see the AIDS public service announcement ads, which are comedy, we had a 10 min intermission while they changed the reels, and we were able to read the sign outside the theatre that said: "In the likely event of a power outage, the generator will turn on and the movie will continue within 2 minutes. Please be patient." Fortunately, there was no outages during the incredible movie. It was fun to think I was watching it at noon Central time in the US so I probably got to see it before most Luther folk! Ha ha! Benefits of living in the Eastern Hemisphere. Well, we're off to a friends house tonight for pasta before our last day in dar tomorrow. I'm just tired now and ready to finish tying up all the loose ends.