Monday, July 27, 2009

Wednesday July 22 2009 - Day of Celebrations

We met with Paul at Concern Universal on Monday of this week and he seems really excited about the designs we have come up with for the design of the rope pump. Our mission for this pump was to adjust the designs or come up with an entirely new design for a pump that would draw water from a well that is more than 20m deep. So on Monday Justin and I were able to meet with Cham who would be manufacturing our design for us. We described our design to him and arranged to meet again with him on Thursday of this week to begin construction.
Wednesday was July 22nd which is the Gambia's Independence Day. Since Jordan and Adam left that morning on a trip for work it was just Justin and I around so we decided to head to Banjul to see the parade and other events that would be going on. It was an incredibly hot day and the parade was a little different than what we are used to at home. It was basically just the various different divisions of the military in uniform on the street and then after waiting quite a while we got to see the president. It was pretty cool to actually be able to see him and all of his supporters and to be here for the day.

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