Bees

                Today our main item of business was the solar dryer again but this morning I went with Whitney to talk to the families instead of working on the solar dryer. Betha translated for Whitney and Austin (another intern from Bunda) translated for me. When we started we planned on just doing five each and leaving some to do tomorrow but we ended up finishing the interviews with all the families we had nutrition packets for. Now all we have left are the ones we didn’t get packets made for, we will do those next week with Dr. Johnston.

                Our sweet potatoes dried great. They all dried by the end of the day and I don’t think the dogs got to any more of them which was nice. We are still nailing down which treatments we are doing for our runs and exactly how many slices we’ll need for them. We have a few things we want to do with them when they are done.

                While Whitney and I were taking measurements after lunch, two girls came in to see what we were doing and they wanted to get into everything we were doing. It was a little stressful because we didn’t want them to mess up what we were doing too much but they were so cute and were ready to play with us. We just couldn’t play with them.

                Another thing about taking measurements, when the potatoes are dry, we put them in some bags to take back to BYU to do some testing. We left the bags in the conference room and found out later that we needed them because a lot of the samples were dry and ready to bag up, so I went to the conference room to get them but there was a swarm of bees in the building and you couldn’t get in or out of the conference room. I almost walked right into them but I heard them before it was too late. So I had to have Emily pass the bags and marker through the window. It was funny, and scary. Fortunately, nobody got hurt.

                There was a lot of down time again today so I took a shower and the water only ran out on me at the very end so I just had to rinse my hair with water from a bucket that we save water in for just such occasions. I also washed some clothes but they weren’t ready to dry until after dinner so they dried in my room overnight and I’ll put them outside in the morning. I also had some time for a nap which was so nice.

                It’s all getting to be pretty routine here. Nothing exciting, no new pictures, just doing what we came here to do.