A hot day.

No, that was not a hot "date". It was just a hot day. Apparently, it got up to 40C in the shade today! Phew, no wonder I had the little rivulets of sweat running down the backs of my legs this afternoon! It was just plain hot. And I completely ran out of energy this afternoon. Probably because it was hot.

But the workshop is going well. We actually participated in the city-wide clean up day today. I have a bunch of photos of the group of us picking up 90 bags of garbage around the outside fence of our compound! Pretty good for an hour's work, eh? 90 bags of garbage. Pretty ridiculous, if I do say so myself. That just gives you an indication of how much garbage is around this town!

The aforementioned photos, however, are still on my camera, which I think I must have left in the office. And it's too hot to walk all the way over there to fetch it. So you'll just have to wait until tomorrow for the photos!

But I'm glad that folks are promoting the cleaning up of this town. I overheard one of the guys who works with us today, who was diligently picking up the garbage outside, telling one of the neighbours that we were doing this work for the "health of the children". And it's true. We're trying to keep disease at bay! But it just shows how odd it was to be seen picking up garbage - the nieghbours all came out to try to figure out what we were all doing with bags and gloves. They couldn't figure out why we were picking up the garbage! But hopefully seeing a bit group of office workers cleaning up will help motivate them to keep the area clean, as well.