#water engineering

Dear Gus & Magnus,

I spent the day doing interviews with our Denver Water Team staff to help them expand the brand in Colorado. The best story: One of our engineers grew up in Juarez/El Paso with brown water coming out of the sink. Her mother used to tell her to let the water run for a while before drinking it because they weren't sure if it was safe. That little girl grew up, boarded a Greyhound bus, and put herself through school in Colorado, where she learned how to treat water. Now she's working to provide clean water to communities all over the Southwest. It's a powerful story that I'm glad I get to tell.

Because Yuliana is a native Spanish speaker, we decided to also interview her in Spanish. I took two years of Spanish in high school, three semesters in college, and Nene used to make us listen to Spanish lesson cassette tapes in her minivan when I was kid, but I still can't speak the language, so I had Sasha come in to run the interviews.

Dad.

[I gave away my invention, and my water, for free because]“I can only sleep in one room, I can only drive one car, I can only eat one meal at a time, why would I need so many?

 I can only touch what's within my arms reach, that’s what I can affect -- what I can see: that far. Everything past that, I can't do anything about it. But through teaching... they can carry this knowledge on passed that, just like the teachers who taught me in school are way gone somewhere else, but I’m still here carrying that spirit.”-- Moses West

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW3LfO990ho

(15/100) days of productivity 🦋

click photo for hd: This is my hydraulics notes for today's lecture!!

Made it to the motherland. My suitcase made it 24 hours later. All in all a success.

I'm now too busy seeing family and eating cake, so no proper post this week.

Feel guilty, but more so relieved to not have to think about work for a little while. Don't remember the last time I didn't.

My advice from this week; value those who love you and without whom you'd be emptier. Give them all the time that you can spare. I promise you, there's nothing more important than that.

~ 30 Day Studyblr Challenge ~

Day 13 - A photo of your textbooks

~ 30 Day Studyblr Challenge ~

Day 4 - A photo of your most recent work

I’ve only been back at uni for a few days so far, so I don’t have all that many notes yet! So instead here’s a little bit of work I had from my last term at uni - it was a lot of work (close to double my previous term, and last term was pretty hectic too!) My main subjects were on concrete and water, and I enjoyed them both a lot!