A crazy week in the life of Dion and Bek

It’s hard to believe we are coming up on 4 months here in Zimbabwe. We do our best to keep our blog updated through Bek’s mum....THANKS MUM. However there is only so much you can express in a text message, or two, or three sometimes 4. The last week has been so busy and totally insane. Monday and Tuesday saw Bek interview over 80 orphans for our feeding programme. That was very draining both physically and mentally. Wednesday we headed into Harare...lets just say its was a disastrous two days. Between our transport that was meant to have been organized but wasn’t, Our laptop power supply going AWOL, the truck breaking down, then getting back on the road only to have to waiting for an hour and a half for our black market diesel coupons.......let’s just say I’m surprised we got anything done. We were both very happy when we got home on Thursday night. Friday saw the first day of our kids club. Its only taken me (bek) 4 months to get it going..hey I have been busy. Anyway the afternoon was a huge success we had over 60 children come and that was with a big school sports thing on so this coming Friday will be interesting.
By Friday night we were both ready for an early night a sleep in and a nice relaxing Saturday. A sleep in we got, a restful day we did not. No sooner had I turned on the laptop to do my diary The Power went off....Quickly followed by a knock at the door. It was Tendai coming to tell us there was a problem with the transformer....smoke....fire....grass...oil....’say that again please’. He and Thomas had found the grass below the transformer on fire ( and turned our breaker off). The fuse was sparking and dropping on the grass hence the fire. Thankfully it stopped sparking but we spent the rest of the morning trying to get hold of the ZESA (Zimbabwe electricity supply authority) technician to turn it off and check it. We headed into town to the ZESA office to get the technicians number, with no luck calling him we went off looking for diesel so we could drive the 50km to Mvuma where he is based. When we got there we discovered we had missed him by 15mins on his way to Gweru and we were not going there. We were left with nothing we could do but go home and wait till someone got hold of him. There went our restful morning. Thankfully the ZESA guys came the next day and replaced the fuse and its all good now.
I’m so glad our life is not always that hectic. It is busy however, a good busy that is.
It getting late (preparing this ahead of getting online) and my brain is no longer functioning. In fact I think I have been blankly staring at the screen for about 5 mins now. So till next time happy blogging. Don’t forget to keep checking the blog and the Vana web site www.vana.org.au. Feel free to email us we might not get it right away but we will get it.