T I A

Well the above acronym was coined my some one, I’m not sure who, but it is definitely used a lot here: “This Is Africa”. Usually mentioned when organization, scheduling or plans completely change or fall apart=). For example, on Monday they asked the students who had already arrived (everything began on Tuesday) to move 400 cases of 12x1.5L waterbottles from one room in their Water store back to the original room – a car had gone through the wall and required repair. We assembled and got it done only to return to the houses and be asked to again go back to the water store (a good 5 min walk on the base) to bring 30 cases for new people – a truck was supposed to come down and we would load it. We got there and waited, and waited and waited, finally a call was made to discover the truck was not coming. We are told the plan is cancelled, start walking back, and then are stopped and told that they still need the water, could we please carry it back (walking) to the houses? We begin but thank goodness another truck is there and the driver allows us to load it, but it took all morning to complete everything and our other plans for internet were postponed. TIA!