Wednesday November 17th 2010.

Hi Bloggers,

Yesterday evening we put our shoe next to the fire. We all put something in our shoe for the horse of Sinterklaas.  This morning we all found a chocolate letter in our shoe.  We are all amazed by this, especially as we did not have a proper chimney!!!!

The team are still here doing the the job in less sunny South Africa.  The Mark and Christophe have been busy altering boxes in order to house the PLC units were are installing for the MIS.

Work on site has been rather disrupted today as we still have a communication problem with the web and this makes a problem for us.  Marcel is tearing his hair out with the lack of progress on the communications front.

Nikki and Mark visited Amersfoort Water Treatment Plant with Ilse today, to get an idea what signals we will be able to pick up and how we will install the MIS system there.  We have found that to take the pump run signals from the pumps feeding the Daggakraal community and also the flow signals from the pumps dosing the coagulant, will be the simplest approach.  This is due to the location of the equipment and the ease of getting the hardware connected and installed into the buildings.

Stean gave us a guided tour of the wonderful countryside on his farm.  We saw some beautiful hills, valleys and fields and it was a good experience to drive off road in this lovely environment.

Later we had a great meal as it was Ilse’s last evening today.  She will be flying home tomorrow.  We are having a great time here even though it is hard work and difficult at times.  No doubt we will learn a lot from our experiences here.  We will also have some good memories and friends.

We will update you further tomorrow after we have had some more beer!!

Ciao!

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