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A tale of two fundis

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I guess I should start by telling you what a fundi is.  The original meaning of the word was someone who is a specialist in some type of work.  It was the word for someone who could repair a phone, a welder, a carpenter.  It has since been used more generally.  It can still mean someone like a welder but also someone who builds a building is now a fundi.  A person you hire to dig a hole in the ground is a fundi. Over the l ast month I have hired two different type of fundis to help at the school.  One was a typical fundi and one was not.  Let me describe how things went with both and see if you can guess which is the normal type and which is not. fundi one with his one tool Fundi One was hired to install the solar systems and wire up all the outlets at the school.  Normally this is a project I would do, but after my illness in September I was not up to go crawling around in the attic space for a week or two which is how long it would tak...