LaraKroeker, Author at Lara Kroeker Interactive

Chapter 31: Our Hotel Family

Initial digging had concluded, but we still had to test the water, build the tower, and dig trenches.

The next two weeks went by slowly as the drillers dug inch-by-inch toward the depth of 100m.

It was like a fade-in into a movie, one that started with a reunion between two friends.

It took two and a half minutes to walk off the plane into the Turkish airport and breathe the unfamiliar smells.

The time had come to leave. I knew this because I had used my last square of toilet paper.

With a car full of just about everyone, we headed to Iyoli one last time before leaving, but this time it was for a party.

We went back and forth to Iyoli and helped to film interviews with the kids in the storytelling club.

We went back to Iyoli with a car full of computer equipment, a generator, and people.

To help determine how deeply the hole needed to be dug for the Iyoli well, the team conducted a survey.

I was back in Kondoa once again, at the same hotel (or at least the one next door).