27/4/2010

The trucks have been held up in the north again so are waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting,   waiting, Off to have morning tea with the Governor tomorrow and solve the worlds problems and some of our own, He has won the election and can now start the process of  getting ready for the referendum next year for an independent South Sudan.

Have had a journalist from AFP staying and having a look around she came up to cover the election and ended up with us for night and is now off on the road again as all good news hounds do. Following  the leads of a good story.

This little ramble is not much as I am having a bit of trouble getting inspired to produce a superfluity of words it is mainly designed to allow Noels good wife from Gundi to know I am still able to type.

Still we wait trucks stopped at check points for 600 ks or so some for money some for not enough paper work some I guess they just don’t want to drive. Ten different stories as to why the trucks cant move ,lies as to where they are or if they have indeed  left Kosti.

No one has any sense of urgency ,counting to ten has gone to 110 and still not enough. Every day we wait will cost us 2 or 3 as we approach the rainy season the build up has not helped much either 40 to 45 in the day 95% humidity and the nights are not much better just gallons of sweat pours out as you try and sleep .Tents are hot and air less.

Hard to keep every one motivated the 3 Bulldozers are on the move every day as we try and buy fuel from town in drums to keep them going. Noel has the hardest job trying to teach so called operators to drive a bulldozer who seem to think 45 min is a big day and have the attention span of an Adel pated twerp [slow pregnant goldfish for those of you who did not have Skippy as an English teacher]Tiredness comes early to some but I guess they are born that way .Noel certainly has some patience and is to be commended for that.

Maybe tomorrow will be the day for some containers and more gear lets hope so.

  

The poor little cow the big hunter and gatherer could not Kill so quiet it walked into the back of the ute