Day 6

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(Note pictures were added to the previous day's entries)
Today was another work day. We traveled to the site and continued working on mixing and pouring concrete and made a lot of progress on the remaining rooms. However in the early afternoon the electricity went out and we learned that tragically the families' 15-year old neighbor and clos friend who was the twin of one of the previous day's helpers was electrocuted. We left at that point so the families could get together and grieve.

Household wiring is all 220V in the country and often exposed and wired in creative but unsafe ways. We learned that the average villager makes about $20.00 per month and so corners are often cut when costs are too high. There is a general feel that personal risk is less important to most people....seatbelts are not worn, driving and passing is on the wild side (not as bad as South America though), holes, construction sites, exposed rebar, and wires are left open on sidewalks and streets.

I should mention (for the Mother's out there) that the Fuller Center works very safely and we are only engaged in benign but important labor. All the Fuller people are very conscious of our need to drink and are constantly stopping for drink breaks and checking-in with people...we have it easy.

Tonight Leo took us all to the ballet at the opera house. Carmen and spanish ballet. Both were finely done and most of us enjoyed ourselves.

P.S. On our way home today we saw a tiny baby bear on a leash and a wedding procession honking in cars with some sort of dead animal fur on the hood and wierd glitzy ornaments on their roofs, looked like a good time.

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Photos

Neighbor
Stopping by after tending his fields...Most people have small irrigated plots in which they grow a variety of fruit, truck crops, and hay...cattle graze in fallow areas and ditches

Mother
The Mother of the family moving in...I will get her name in a few days

Comments

[Ann]

a full day
It isn't every day that you are doing heavy duty manual labor (benign though it may be) in the morning and then go to the ballet at night - I hope you had time to get the cement out of your hair! Stay safe, don't trip on any exposed rebar, and don't say the wrong thing to the wrong person and wind up a bride (or groom!)in a wedding procession! -- Ann P.S. Thanks for the pictures - I love them.

[Ken]

fun summer
Hey crew. I bet the next time you pass by a constuction site and they are pouring 8 to 10 yards of cement in about 20 min. it will make your work and time warp into Armenia mean that much more. It sounds like next year we all need to go to WV and work at Ann and Tonys, painting and grounds maintenance. That comment was for the Droege crew but if the others there want to come along I am sure it would be ok. They would have to bring there own bucket. You all have fun and check out Barretts web site I think he will be adding pics of him on fire that are real cool. He just toasted his ears a little bit. Ferae says hey