Yesterday (Sunday) was church. If I had to sum up the day in one word (which I just did), I'd use the word church. We left the guest house and drove 45 minutes to downtown Libreville a CMA church. The service started about 9:00am Africa time. We walked in and were seated in the front row. There was lots of worship, with some sitting breaks because everyone was tired from the football match the night before. Henry, our team leader gave the message which would have been better if it hadn't been translated into French.
After 3 hours of church, we went to Antoinette's house. Antoinette is a Gabonese engineer (along with many other degrees). She's an amazing woman and it was so cool to spend some time with her. When lunch was done we went to the largest CMA church campus (the sanctuary seats 2000 people) and met with a whole group of Gabonese engineers. It was pretty cool, to hear from them, but after awhile (probably 2 hours later) it was getting a little dry and Henry let us girls (Lauren, Molly, and me) leave. So we walked around the campus a little bit. There were some kids around, some playing soccer, and some swinging sticks around playing ninjas :) We ran into a group of college students and talked with them for a bit, which was cool.
Today, Henry and I started master planning. There isn't an architect on our team, so Henry (the project leader and structural engineer) are working on it together. It was fun, drawing a ton of conceptual site plans. We still don't have a really good idea of the topography of the site yet, so the plans are all based on concept and program. Tomorrow we'll head to the site in the morning, to try to get a better feel for it.
Dinners are one of my favorite times of day because all of the team members are back from their various tasks and we usually have a few guests, too. We talk about everything that's happened throughout the day, try new and exotic fruits and play some Africa trivia. It's fun :)
Photos are here, on my facebook album.
After 3 hours of church, we went to Antoinette's house. Antoinette is a Gabonese engineer (along with many other degrees). She's an amazing woman and it was so cool to spend some time with her. When lunch was done we went to the largest CMA church campus (the sanctuary seats 2000 people) and met with a whole group of Gabonese engineers. It was pretty cool, to hear from them, but after awhile (probably 2 hours later) it was getting a little dry and Henry let us girls (Lauren, Molly, and me) leave. So we walked around the campus a little bit. There were some kids around, some playing soccer, and some swinging sticks around playing ninjas :) We ran into a group of college students and talked with them for a bit, which was cool.
Today, Henry and I started master planning. There isn't an architect on our team, so Henry (the project leader and structural engineer) are working on it together. It was fun, drawing a ton of conceptual site plans. We still don't have a really good idea of the topography of the site yet, so the plans are all based on concept and program. Tomorrow we'll head to the site in the morning, to try to get a better feel for it.
Dinners are one of my favorite times of day because all of the team members are back from their various tasks and we usually have a few guests, too. We talk about everything that's happened throughout the day, try new and exotic fruits and play some Africa trivia. It's fun :)
Photos are here, on my facebook album.
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