By Dean Horvath
November 6, 2011

It’s Sunday, and no one works on a Sunday. We took the day to drive to Nanyuki, the nearest decent sized city, which is about 30 minutes away. There were two goals in Nanyuki:

Find an Internet connection
We have no Internet at the Blue Line Hotel, so we’ve all been cut off from the world for days. It will be nice to send some emails.

Procure some gifts
Many of us wanted to get some more supplies for the kids at the school, and we were told the best place to buy them would be the supermarket there.

On the way, we crossed the Equator and watched an interesting display of how water swirls differently on each side of the Equator. The owners of the tourist shops also hounded us, although no one was in the mood for tourist trap shopping.

After a quick lunch in town and a torrential downpour, we headed to the supermarket. The Internet proved illusive at first but we were finally able to get it up the road.

Supplies were great through. Using extra money collected from family and friends, the team purchased 120 pairs of shoes, a bunch of backpacks, 400 pens and miscellaneous supplies. These will all be given to the kids at the completion ceremony on Friday.

The guys also wanted to get some new equipment for the Moving Mountain construction crew, but Kioni, the head of the crew, has his own hardware store so they decided to get it from him instead of the Supermarket.

After seeing the conditions of Evelyn’s home yesterday, we talked about how we could fix their homes to make them waterproof. Our first thought was purchasing a roll of plastic that they could use to wrap their roofs. While Keoni said that it would work for a couple of years, the weather would eventually rot the plastic and they would be back in the same predicament they are today.

The Moving Mountain Trust’s philosophy is to make sure they are helping for the long term, so the temporary solution we thought of was discarded.

Instead, he suggested fixing one house permanently with tin paneling for the same price. Then, as more groups come through, they’ll add more and more houses. Eventually, all of the houses in the village will have iron roofs.

So this is the plan. We’ll put a tin roof on Eveyn’s house so they will no longer have to worry about rainstorms. They’ll be able to sleep through the night, the mud inside the house will dry out, and the flies will find elsewhere to live.

We decided to work through the details tomorrow.

The rest of the day was relaxation time.