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Published: August 4th 2010
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3rd Floor Going Down
Here is my 3rd house this morning, with the floor being "laid". Tuesday, August 3rd
Another day in El Salvador. An even earlier wake up time, although again we slept quite well and awoke over an hour before we needed to, a decent breakfast and we were on our way to the Los Angeles community to finish the houses. This time, the women went to places by themselves and just us guys (and one more adventurous young lady) worked on houses in the community. Soon after lunch, we'd finished the last of the ten houses, so we were taken on a preliminary tour of the Los Angeles 2 community we'd work at tomorrow. This community was even more impoverished looking, and from the looks of things had a lot less families living there. Unfortunately, being the newer of the communities, all that has been done for them so far is to try to give them tin roofs that didn't leak. Tomorrow we will be adding walls to the small church there along with a couple windows and a door. We returned to the hotel by 5pm or so and freshened up before leaving for dinner.. still without the ladies who were in San Salvador doing some sort of children's thing.
Dinner
3rd House with Crew
Here is the3rd house after lunch with the walls pretty much up, and the crew boss in the foreground. was at the same small local restaurant and the owners & staff are becoming friends. They remember my wanting some of the great Salvadorian coffee and reminded me they had some fresh brewed for me! Dinner this time was a Salvadorian favorite call pupusas. It is a specially made corn tortilla, fried with refried beans and cheese inside. They gave us a pickled vegetable side and sauce to go with it. I found out from watching our bus driver tha t sat next to me just how you (as a Salvadorian) are supposed to eat it. You tear off a piece and then use your hands to scoop up some filling and stuff it in your mouth. Seems a bit strange, but it was ... I stopped counting at four. We were also served a fried corn meal piece stuffed with ground beef. This time I drank a different juice with dinner, but had my coffee at the end. This stuff is growing on me... I am starting to like it without cream or milk. After our great dinner, we stopped off for ice cream and I went with the leader to a nearby supermarket to buy a bunch more
The Smiling Assistant
Here is a photo of the boss's assistant smiling at me. They were all Salvadorian college student volunteers. candy (we're running low already! After buying about 10 large bags and a couple cases of water, we returned to the hotel at about 7:30pm... and still no ladies!
They finally showed up a bit after 9pm. Apparently, they'd spend most of the day in San Salvador, the capitol, at a charismatic church for single mothers and then they went to THE mall there. Manoli says it was pretty much just like what we have in the U.S. Again, I can't get any of her pictures posted since I can relate to most of them nor supply her story. We'll try to get her part of the trip straightened out soon, with lots of her photos. So, I guess I'm done for tonight. Tomorrow will be another early day with work on the church at Los Angeles 2 and then after lunch the commissioning ceremony for the new homes in Los Angeles 1. More on that tommorrow.
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Jo MacDonald
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10 houses
So many houses in so few day! I'm impressed! How many people are there in your group? What kind of experience do they have to be able to put houses together so quickly?