Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Putting the Horse Before the Cart

I won't trouble with daily updates on the construction, but I just got a good shot (admittedly blurry--I took it through my window screen) of something I wanted to show earlier.

Around here, when we refer to a workhorse, we mean it literally. This horse has been on campus for several days, carting sand across the soccer field to the site where it is used to make cinder-blocks. Here he is leaving to get another load of sand.

Horse carts like this are common in Dakar, sharing the roads with the thousands of cars and trucks, though usually, they stay off of the divided highways.