Two new updates…

Sorry for the lack of updates, the internet in Africa is kinda hit and miss..if you look below there is another update that I posted today from a couple days ago.
So the whole team is now together in the city of Jos. We’ve been traveling today so most of us have been taking some time to relax. Here’s what’s been going on the last couple of days…
Wes, Janice, Luke and Cindy arrived two nights ago to help us with the big pour at the children’s clinic. The whole team met together yesterday morning at the hospital site. This was definetly a great time, and everyone was very happy to see each other. All three teams pulled up to the site and we started working rite away. The hospital foundation was very large, and lots of concrete needed to be mixed and pour. Since we were in a smaller village, and in a more remote part of Africa, getting a pumper truck was something that definitely wasn’t going to happen. We all came together and formed two large lines from the mixer to the pour site and back, using about 50 people in the process. It was amazing to see the Africans and Canadians come together to get something this monumental finished. The locals informed us that this was the very site that almost 100 years ago Canadian missionaries had come to help developed, the school and church that they built are still in use today. It was such an incredible experience.
After that, our whole team packed into vehicles, and we headed to the Yankari National Game Reserve to check out some wild animals. After waiting about an hour to check into the rooms, something we are finding very commonplace around here, we decided to go for a late night swim in the warm springs. This spring was so amazing, with crystal clear water that was so clean you could drink it, and we had an unreal time climbing the trees and swimming. As we were playing in the water, we heard some leaves shaking, and when we looked up we found a family of baboons playing above us, which was amazing! We’ve also found out that the power likes to randomly go out when you least expect it, which happened last night as we were swimming, leaving a group of us stranded in a body of water in the middle of the wild in Africa, something that nobody was stoked on!! After waiting about ten minutes the lights came on, and everything was fine.

Brent, Chris, Paul, Joel, and myself were introduced to a new way of getting waken up in Africa, a hungry baboon scrambling across your bed! I guess Shane thought it would be funny to lure a full grown baboon into our room with a power bar, then throw it on our bed. All I can say is that seeing a 100 pound monkey jumping on your body at 6 in the morning is something that we will never forget.
After we woke up we went on the safari, which was pretty great. As soon as we left we saw a family of elephants, which stood about 10 feet from Terence. The mother elephant puffed out her ears to protect her baby, and I think I saw some tears in the guy’s eyes..lol
We ended up seeing lots of great animals, we saw some hippos swimming under the water, some monkeys, buck, buffalo, warthog, but unfortunately no lions.
So after that we drove about 3 hours to Jos, and we’re getting ready to do some more projects tomorrow. So far we have been involved in drilling boreholes, refurbishing wells, building a childrens center, hospital foundation, and renovating a school, so we’re defiantly looking forward to what’s coming next.
Hopefully we’ll get another update for you guys soon, things are going great here!!!!