The past week has been great. I went to a Shona Anglican Music Competition. It was fantastic. It was at a church in the middle on nowhere. There were 4 choirs. They all had to do 2 songs, 1 that was of their choosing and 1 that was written by an adjudicator. I went to a working farm that spans as far as you can see. It's on a hill and one of the only green places I've seen here. The couple who own it is the rector of the church I will be part of. They have said I can go and relax for a few days whenever I need to. I may never leave if I go. It's so quiet and and peaceful. I have been working on some projects; the most exciting one is using Maize (their staple food) as a building material. After the harvest the maize is burned or chucked because it's not good for anything. My hope is to use it as a replacement in clay bricks. It is a strong fibre and I'm hoping it will create a strong brick. If this works, farmers will be making money after the harvest, their will be a middle man who will create the brick (another job) and the country will be creating their ow building product! I have a contractor interested as well as the Zimbabwe Standards Association which is incharge of licensing any work done in the country. I've been offered a lab and office to test the work in. So now I just need to get the materials and a brick press. Doug Funk from the Solong Foundation and a good friend has donated a high compression brick press which uses force and compression to create bricks instead of heat/fire. This is huge because Zimbabwe (Zim) is having a crisis of deforestation because people are cutting down all the wood for fire and no one is replacing it. I went to the Canadian Embassy to check in. It was the fastest trip to Canada I have ever taken. I received an email saying Thanks for the visit and they'll keep in contact.