The donors came yesterday, they agreed to build a pavilion and new school building! They loved CCA, as they should. Bob said we ought to be proud of how good it all looks, and we are. Since last Tuesday we have steadily worked on the Hydroponics which wound up needing 3 rectangular trenches dug 2 feet deep with islands in the middle, you can see the pictures below. Once we got the trenches dug, we put in a foot of cement (I have the formula memorized by now dos carretas de arena, dos de gravine, y una bolsa, siguen dos arena, dos gravine, una bolsa, cuatro bolsas eran necesarios por un sangrejo. Is that all spelled correctly? I'm not sure but it's close, a week with Carlos and you know the name of every tool, every material, and every job, you learn Bible stories in Spanish, you learn how to actually dig efficiently. I've learned more Spanish, Construction, and Digging in the past week than I've ever learned before. We "worked" with the 5th-8th grade students last Thursday and Friday for 5 hours each day. It was babysitting with tools. Carlos dice que trabajamos mas rapido sin los ninos, and he's right. For those of you who don't know what that means and are too lazy to use a dictionary or even google translate like I am, it means we work faster without the kids. Carlos and I spoke in Spanish the entire time even though he knows a little English, so it's comfortable now, I switch without knowing it sometimes and confuse myself. We didn't get it all done but we "put on a show" for the donors and have continued to work, hopefully we can finish within the next 2 days. We cleaned out all of the weeds in both Galeras, Alex is a middle schooler and can use a machete faster than I could use a weed-wacker, the boy is insane. We stacked wood, scrubbed walls, filled mud holes, filled ditches, organized piles of materials, and many other things, whatever needed to be done. I enjoyed teaching the boys how to dig.
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Eric Smith
10/26/2016 08:38:26 pm
I am proud of you and thankful that you inherited your mom's work ethic!
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Ethan
10/30/2016 03:42:29 pm
Well I learned more from having to pick up your slack, so thanks for the practice man!
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