Today we completed our fourth day on site. The school is just about finished. We´ve spent the last few days mixing concrete, pouring the floor, painting, digging latrines and cutting and bending rebar which will b used for the next school build in a neighbouring community. It´s hard, hot work, but everyone is pitching in including the children of Bella Vista. Yesterday we visited the students in their existing school, which is a ranchero style shelter made of wood and palm branches. Of course we totally disrupted the teacher´s lesson plan, but everyone was happy to see us. Today we brought some school supplies and gifts to the school. The highlight was the balsam airplanes, the kids loved them. All of us are doing well. There have been a few upset stomachs, scrapes, bruises and headaches,
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