It’s been almost a week since I got here. Arusha is great! The weather is perfect and the jungle is beautiful. Contrary to what I’d expected I have very few mosquito bites.
On Monday we celebrated the completion of our first major construction project, a pig pen. This was a momentous occasion because we were moving the pigs and new piglets into the pen.
Moving the piglets was easy, they were cute and squealed while we carried them. The momma and poppa pigs were not so easy. The poppa pig tried to make a run for it which sent all of us dashing into the jungle. I was able to grab the pig on several occasions but 200lbs of scared angry pork is not easy to control. Well eventually we got him over to the pen and I grabbed hold of his ears and wrestled him to a stop. One of the locals and I got him into his stall where he remains. The momma pig didn’t try to run but instead just sat there. All of the guys with all of there might could not get this pig to move. So what did we do? We bribed her with bananas and she complied. Lesson for the future, if you need to move a pig bananas are far more enticing than a rope around the leg.
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