Sunday, August 16, 2009

Charge of the Bucket Brigade

Well Ladies and Gentlemen, back into the saddle out here and there isn't any time to relax. I thought I would be able to kick back and have a lazy sunday, but while I was enjoying my morning coffee one of my students came up to my window and mouthed "Fire" and pointed towards the inner village. I jumped up and threw my boots and hustled out to the village and found that the fire was in a shack outside my old house! There was already a bucket brigade forming so I jumped in line and we were able to move quite a lot of water in five gallon buckets from this swampy pool to the shack. We got most of the fire out by the time they were able to hook up a hose and water pump to the swamp. It ran for a short while and then there wasn't really any water being sucked in. so the hose kind of failed, but the buckets kept coming and there was minimal damage to the structure of the shack just most of the stuff on the inside gut burned up.

After we were able to break the bucket brigade down I was able to visit with some of the villagers and it turned out to be a good way to meet a bunch of people and talk about summer. After a little catching up I headed home and decided how I was going to try and tackle the mountain of things that stand at the beginning of every school year. Well see how the blogging holds up this year.