One month to go...

We're a little bit behind schedule all of a sudden, but after my last visit, I'm 100% confident we'll be done by the end of March. Why am I so sure? The headmaster told me that one reason the roofing was delayed was that the workers were engaged in other projects in town and he had a hard time sometimes getting them to focus on our project. My solution: the same thing that generally works on me - food. I gave the headmaster enough money to feed all the workers extra well everyday from now until the end of the month and threw in a decent monetary bonus if we can make the deadline(up until now the unskilled labor has been either totally voluntary - school staff members - or the very low paid help of the skilled mason and carpenter. I was able to do this because we're anticipating coming out a little bit UNDER budget - even after adding the electrical work on the dorm!) The mason and carpenter assured me that they would stay with the dormitory project until it's totally finished. I also scheduled another quick trip in two weeks. I've asked them to have everything done at that point besides the painting. This thing's gonna get done - and I'll have the pictures to prove it!!!

Carl

PS - Check out that ginormous cell phone tower with the mud hut in the foreground!