#koshe

Tenzin knows how to set up a triage unit because of his mother, and the first time Pema sees him do this after a disaster she's like, "Who is this man?"

AFRICA’S FIRST ENERGY PLANT THAT CONVERTS TRASH INTO ELECTRICITY OPENS IN ETHIOPIA

The largest waste dump in Ethiopia has been converted into an energy plant that turns trash into power. The Koshe waste dump has been operational for nearly 50 years, but after a terrible accident that killed 140 people in March of 2017, local officials began to consider other possible uses for the site.

Ultimately, the site was turned into the first energy plant in Africa that converts trash into power. The conversion was a part of the “Reppie Waste-to-Energy Project” which seeks to encourage renewable energy throughout the country.

The plant is expected to have the capacity to incinerate 1,400 tons of waste every day, and generate large volumes of power for local businesses and residences.

Zerubabel Getachew, Ethiopia’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations explained that, “The Reppie project is just one component of Ethiopia’s broader strategy to address pollution and embrace renewable energy across all sectors of the economy. We hope that Reppie will serve as a model for other countries in the region, and around the world,”

Trash at the site will be burned in a combustion chamber to create heat that will be used to boil water until it turns to steam, which will then drive a turbine generator to produce electricity. It is also said that the plant will have very low emissions, which will comply with the emissions standards of the European Union. The fact that trash won’t be breaking down in the environment is another advantage.

Ethiopia invested $96 million in the plant, and hired the British firm Cambridge Industries Limited and the China National Electrical Engineering Company to construct the facility. The plant took four years to complete, and opened in January of last year.

Koshe!

Koshe became an acolyte a little bit later in life

She was in a compulsory heterosexual marriage and one day just up and left the guy when she decided that she wanted to take a chance on living.

She didn't know exactly what she wanted to accomplish, but her cushy middle-class life with a husband who didn't love her wasn't where she wanted to be forever

She spent years walking around the Earth Kingdom with a group of earthy-crunchy hippies. (think "secret tunnel" guy). She learned a bunch of odd jobs and saw the full range of human experience in others and got a good dose of it herself.

Before leaving home she didn't know that life could be so full of both the good and the bad

It made her humble and kind

She started keeping journals describing her journey

She never went back home

Whenever she would find young street urchins in her travels, she would take them under her wing until she got them to a place they would be safe

Koshe is a patron saint of sorts to the dozens of kids she helped out over the years

A small part of her always wanted the kids to stay, but she knew she wouldn't be able to provide stability for them, so she settled for just helping them out in moments of need

She always cried when they left

Eventually, she got her fill of wandering. She was getting older, her body was slowing down, the winters were long and the summers were hot. Sometimes the kids she "fostered" went with Air Acolytes when it was convenient. She knew enough about the acolytes to trust them, and the next time she crossed paths with some of them, she joined them and ended up at the Northern Air Temple

Read it on ao3

Koshe tapped her pen against her journal, lost in thought. She had already flipped through the pages to see if she had accidentally put the information she was looking for elsewhere but found nothing.

She had been surprised to see that Pema's arrival date was one year ago today according to her notes, she figured her memory must not be as bad as she thought, but couldn't for the life of her understand how Pema had been here for a whole year and she hadn't written down her birthday. She flipped through some of the pages just to confirm that she had been writing down the birth dates of the other acolytes. Everyone else she knew for more than a few months had the information scribbled by their name.

Pema knew her birthday. The girl had even baked her a small sweet cake and refused to eat any of it, insisting that it was all for her.

She closed the journal and went to go find her. It took a few tries, the girl liked to squirrel herself away in places where no one would find her. It was a habit they were trying to break her out of. Koshe checked all of the usual spots and couldn't find her. She scratched her head and moved to the common areas to ask around if anyone had seen her.

Pema sat at one of the low tables eating an apple with a large book open before her. Koshe smiled, seeing the efforts of breaking two bad habits were paying off. It had taken nearly the full year since she arrived to convince her that the open door policy in the kitchen was there for a reason. No one had to go hungry among the acolytes, and the girl honestly needed to eat more. Koshe sat down next to her.

So, the Koshe and Saikhan thing is an interlude to a very long and convoluted AU. Basically, the main characters, the "A" plot, so to speak, is all at the south pole.

Koshe (the acolyte lady with glasses) and Saikhan (we know him) are how we get the "B" plot of everything going on in the city while the "main characters" aren't there. Koshe and Saikhan end up as unusual allies in Republic City because Pema and Lin end up as unusual allies at the south pole.

The gist of it is: one day Saikhan delivers a letter to Air Temple Island for Koshe, and boom they're now in an extremely strange situation with each other because they both desperately want to be in contact with the people at the south pole but due to in-universe reasons, they HAVE to contact Pema and Lin via letters, they HAVE send their mail together, at the same time. Koshe is always rushing her ass Saikhan's office at the last minute trying to get the mail from the acolytes into the proverbial mail man's truck. lol.

Their dynamic is like. Hippie liberal tree hugger who was raised in nobility and will cut you down with precise words, and conservative bastard cop guy who has a 24/7 migraine but actually isn't that bad outside of the whole "is a cop" thing once you get to know him.[ACAB]

//Yes! Look at Koshe sitting on the bed after Rohan is born! She's making sure Pema and the baby are alright.

//She was the first one to show up when Pema went in to labor! Literally teleported out of nowhere the second she screamed!

Deux expressions linguistiques qui ne diront plus grand-chose aux délicieux young duckers.. new gen. Part of the game…

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