Palm wine and trucks
Tuesday September 16th:
The second day of work was a little smoother than the first… not that the first wasn’t smooth, but I had a little bit more work I could do. I now have a few well organized lists of things that I can work on, and things that I need. My computer is in working order. There was a meeting of the local NGO’s to discuss getting a VSO volunteer to do some marketing, networking and fundraising. I just listened. There is a lot of work that can be done here to help out. After work, we went out for drinks, and we went looking for the Geovic/Geoaid folks who were rumored to be in town. I saw the Palm Wine area just south of town. It is a field with about a half a dozen semi-established huts that serve palm wine. We didn’t stay. On the way back, I saw a few people who were staggering, and one that had pretty much decided he was sleeping on the road for the evening. I hope he didn’t get crushed by the “grumiers”… the large logging trucks that are ever present in Lomie. The trucks, if not driving through town carrying up to 4 giant tree trunks, are parked along side the road, waiting to leave… or sampling the beverages, and women of Lomie. This is a town straight out of the wild west. Total frontier town.