Today brought us a day of doing chores – working in the
library some more, and then we headed out to another missionaries house where
we had dinner, and walked along the beach.
Today has been our first day of experiencing Equitorial Guinea (EG)
without electricity. We lost the
electricity around 8:30 this morning, and as of right now, as I am writing this
blog – 8pm, we still are without power. (The power stayed out until 3:30pm the
following day – a day and a half without power). Most missionaries here have some element of
solar power in their houses. For the
house we are staying in that means we have three light bulbs in the house that
are wired to the solar panels on the roof.
So, we have a bulb in the living room area, a bulb in the bedroom, and a
bulb in the bathroom. But – we were
warned about the power outages, and as Honduras is prone to outages, we came
prepared with two flash lights, two head lamps, and one small battery operated
fan. The primary difference between Honduras’
power outages and here in EG is that in Honduras we may be without power for as
little as 30 minutes, and as long as 8 hours.
Only a few times in our 7 ½ years in Honduras have we had power outages
for up to 12 hours – apparently 12 hours is the “normal” amount of time for
outages here – lasting up to several days.
Tomorrow is our last full day on the mainland. We are going to relax, go to a hotel that has
a pool and eat lunch. Afterwards, we
want to take a last walk around the huge central town market where we will pick
up a few souvenirs. It has been a very
educational and great opportunity of information swapping between us and the
full-time missionaries that are here.
