On Thursday, December 24th, I traveled to Kpando to meet with Bishop Forson regarding digging a borehole for his school. Work was not scheduled at the Airfield School on Christmas Eve.

I received a call from my contractor that the whole community showed-up for a half day work, 65 people including some youngsters. This was my Christmas present, am I going to trade it back on Monday? Did the wheel turn? are we in the clear? We will know Monday after this four day weekend.

So, last week after the meeting with the assembly on Wednesday, the two groups were instructed to join so we should have a reasonable number of people on the site. On Thursday, the day after the big meeting, nothing changed. I burned another fuse and after a whole day of negotiation we compromised and agreed that the two groups will join only for the casting of the floor but each person will need to be excused for not showing up to work. The agreement was written in Ewe and signed by seven of the community elders.

If things will go right, we will cast the floor after the first of the year. The walls will take about two to three weeks. The Roof is next,. hopefully we will start not later than the beginning of February. I hope that the weather will cooperate and will not give us any surprises.

And the saga continue.

Happy New Year to our family and friends around the world