Jun 032011
Another early start (6am) to get to the village of Aco (1 hours away over bumpy and dusty tracks) and meet the chap who is probably going to be producing the combustion chambers for the stoves project. He’d forgotten to bring the prototype with him, so after hanging around for 1.5 hours, I got to borrow someone’s beetle and drive up to his village (another 30 minutes away on very bumpy tracks). The prototype needs a bit of altering, but it’s looking good and won’t be too long before the project can actually be up and running. I have to go back in 2 weeks to pick up the first batch (of 10) – I just hope he remembers to bring them this time!!
Blimey – sounds like a bit of a game – especially driving someone else’s car up to the village…!
All in a day’s work in Peru! We often say that you start the day with plan A and you’ve run out of letters by the end of the day!!
You should learn some Greek – that’s what got us Physicists out of a hole when we ran out of letters for things… I mean let’s face it, Einstein used 3 up with E = mc^2… 😉
Ummm….. well, actually with my Ph.D. in Ancient History I feel like I’ve learnt all the Greek I ever wanted to and life in Peru is such that you’d probably go through all the 50,000 characters in Chinese as well!!!