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50L challenge update

With seven toilets with bottles in them this it how much water is being saved per day(minimum). What I like about this is that I don't have to go out of my way really to do it. If I ever see an empty water bottle around I just fill it with some trash and pop it in the back of the nearest toilet. The sad thing is the more that I do this, the more I realize how much water is being wasted everyday.

Also if anyone looking for some useful information about how they can be more conservative in their day to day living or wants to be informed about current projects I suggest adding David Suzuki to Facebook.

50 Liters a day

I've decided that I will give myself a challenge that will actually be beneficial to someone besides me. That person being a thing... and that thing being the planet.

The other day I took an empty 500mL water bottle and filled it up with some old disposable razors, an old butter knife, and water. Took the top off my toilet and set it in. Wow rocket science, and he's so original. Now that's one toilet. There are two of us that live in this apartment. I guarantee that there are going to be MINIMUM 2 flushes in the morning... and 2 flushes before bed.  That's a savings of 2 liters of water a day! Again wow, 2 whole liters. Now this is where the challenge comes in. If I can place a bottle in 25 toilets that I know will be flushed at least twice a day then that's 50+ liters per day. If the next time I'm at a Chinese reastuant at 3 in the morning on a Saturday I slip a bottle in the public washroom it could be flushed 100 times a night on the weekend. There's 50 liters right there!  So really 50 is more of a bare minimum. But if everyone that read this (Sam) tried to do the same thing then it all adds up. All you need is some garbage :)

PEI Marathon

Last week after finding out that there was a marathon happening in town I decided to head to Walmart and pick up a pair of seventeen dollar running shoes and run a 42.2 KM marathon.

Surprisingly it wasn't really that hard. I think that had I done even a couple weeks of training I could have gotten a much better time. Also I think the aftermath (the fact that I can't really walk at all) would have been much less annoying.

Anyway here are the official results

Place 226, Chadwick Dearford 4:54:22

http://www.atlanticchip.ca/events/results-show.php?result=926

Also here is the recommended training schedule for the full marathon which I chose to neglect;

http://www.princeedwardislandmarathon.com/uploads/PDFs/marathon%20training.pdf

Sam Sam Sam

This post is for Sam. The only person who will know that I've updated my blog :)

So basically I made it home without getting Malaria or staving to death. I know live an average life working at a hotel and living in an apartment in good old Charlottetown. BORING I know, but I'll try to spice things up a bit. I have a few ideas I've what I would like to make this blog, and I don't really care it fails... because Sam, your the only one reading it.

Another day, another Miskito bite

So yesterday started with a strange dream about being late, followed by waking up almost late. I have never used an alarm here... and I'm not sure anyone does. I never have trouble making it to work for 7 AM with no wake up call. After arriving at work our boss didn't show up. After waiting for a half an hour a friend and I crossed the inlet to Maxixe for some fried pork meat over a fire along with the local beer 2 M. After we visited so friends and hunted some coco nuts , opened them with machetes, and drank their tasty tasty water. After returning back to Inhambane we hunted up some tradition coconut beer and had a few brews....

Today involved a meeting with the head honcho of Ajude. After a group of us walked down to the end of the pier.. and with a little reserch discovered the water is more than deep enough to jump into. So we did... Now here I sit wet and sticky updating my blog!

But now it's time to head home and eat one of the same three meals that have been for supper the last month!

Chickens everywhere....

Today the internet is moving at a reasonable pace! Also there is Firefox so I can spell check this mo fo. Christmas in Mozambique involves lots of ''bread'' like cookies and cake. Ever family makes the exact same kind and gives them to all their friends. .. basically everyone just does a big trade.

Finally some pictures !

So this is the the Casa de Cultura where our group spends alot of it's time. note how there isn't a roof or glass in the windows. This is like most of the buildings in Inhambane.




This is one of the many pathways I pass through on a daily basis... but not the narrowest.



Here we have two of my host brothers. Heldar is the one gutting a raw fish to be eaten later that for supper. Sogrou (sp??) is leaning against the house we live in. to the left is the kitchen...

I have on other brother who I don't have a picture of yet... but I'll get him along with mom and dad.