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thefttRALD Wednesday September 18 1991 Community News Page IB Incredible African experience comes to an end of rice By ANDREW ISAAK Herald Zaire Correspondent Hello again from Aba Zaire Ive been here for about two now Its a very peaceful Sun day afternoon with the temperature at a comfortable 25 degrees C In the midst of the rainy season weve had a fairly significant 2 week dry spell It ended with a fairly harsh hail storm a few days ago Hail stones the size of large marbles crashed to the ground causing much damage to the corn fields A house just down the hill from my house had a wall almost collapse We figure the winds were close to a hurricane level Thankfully I havent heard of anyone being hurt from the storm The Aba Hospital Water Pro ject is still being worked on We hope to mount our solar panels up next week on top of a metre high platform An supply of cement is slowing our progress a little It also takes some time to break up the rocks to make gravel However our 35000 litre water tank was completed this week A small amount of damage was caused to it by the hail but it was easily repaired My three weeks left in Zaire will go quickly but I am encouraged to our recent pro gress and I think we will be pum ping water with the sun before I go Perhaps its time to learn more Bengala After saying your greetings Mbote for how are you doing you might ask which means Whats new If the news is good you say Malumu Otherwise Nsango Mabe the news Ms bad Hie re mainder of my Bengala vocabulary consists of a lot of nouns Its very difficult to pick up a language so quickly Im limited in how to express myself and usually jump Into French then English and then some sort of sign language Ive had several instances when I thought I got my idea across and then the person does the exact opposite The ex perience builds character if not a lot of patience You might have heard of the civil war problems in the country of Sudan Being so close to the Sudan border this area has several Sudan refugee camps Some of the Sudanese have lived longer in Zaire than in Sudan because of the severe problems they encounter in their home country Insufficient food sup plies are always a problem in these refugee camps A number of the missionary agencies have tried to provide rice and peanuts to some of the more needy refugees I shared a plane En Zaire with a member from the United Nations High Commission on Refugees UN who was investigating the situation in this area of the country Its very strange to be so near the pro blems that you usually see on the six oclock news Food that is available in the local area ranges from the familiar to the very exotic We enjoy many meals here con sisting of variations of rice beans corn chicken goat and potatoes There are many tropical fruits to be picked near by such as mangos bananas pineapple cur de and lemons Local specialities that in clude monkey meat cooked ter mites and a flour paste re quire a bit more of an adven turous stomach I have learned and gained much as I struggled with and en joyed these last two months With stopovers and 2 weeks to travel home Ill have some time to fully reflect on my time here to my friends who filled me in on the baseball and hockey situation in this weeks mail Happy anniversary Mom and Dad and I guess Ill see you in about a month THE END OF SUMMER SALE Enjoy the arcade action of TurboGrafx16 129 581600 Remotecontrolled answering machine Home video arcade system has incredible colour graphics TurboPad controller and game Put music in your kitchen SmithCorona correcting XL 2700 typewriter SpellRight Wordfirid and Worderaser save 20 Tone remote controls all functions Memo record Accessories included Rechargeable battery AC adapter charger output and RF converter SPECIAL PURCHASE With builtin dictionary and thesaurus and full line memory correction 2618001 French only 17995 Programmable calculator save D fc I I Iff 87 scientificbased functions With battery Trig and stats functions protective lid not included unless specified Radio Shack hi lor typographical or errors Ha in Chocks out All prices shown are the retail i GST applicable PSI MEMOREX Memorex remotecontrol camcorder Title superimposer In any of five colours Wireless remote for operation at a distance variable 8x power zoom and builtin mlc Auto focus auto Iris and macro focus closeup 89909 APPLY TODAY Make shopping at Radio Shack van with a Radio Shack Bancharge credit card Its accepted at all Radio Shack and participating across Canada DIVISION CANADA LTD Value Check the white pages tor the Radio Shack store or participating dealer nearest you Sale ends Sept 30 1991 Radio