We have now been on the job two days and judging by the moans and groans it is getting to us. Despite the hard work the experience has been really wonderful. Getting t0 know the two families whose homes we are helping build has been fun and gratifying. After we arrived we broke into two teams, team Juan and team Jose. I am a member of team Juan and we are building a home for Onofre, his wife Martia, and their two children Henry (8) and Juanita (4). Onofre is also the job site foreman and is a mason. The home site is on the edge of town, away from the hustle and bustle of El Centro Uspantan. Today we carried concrete blocks, shoveled broken up clay bricks from what appears to be an old house tear down, helped the other team form a chain to move 150 or so concrete blocks down a narrow path to mention just a few tasks.
Upon our return from the job site we found we had no hot water in the rooms, let alone cold water so now I´m biding my time at a local internet cafe. Dinner will be in a local families home as usual where interacting with the family is both difficult due to the language barrier and vastly interesting as we learn about the local Mayan experience.
Enough for now,
Mel
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