After a great night of rest and 2 cafes I was ready
to finish the first week of my project. We didn't completely finish the wall but we came very close. Pepe and Noel set up scaffolding, which would never pass a New York inspection, in fact within the first few minutes one of the supports nearly collapsed while Noel was standing on the supported boards!! PEPE!! Yo grité jaja. The scaffolding only consisted of ladders, nails, and planks of wood, some of which were for standing on and others were for supporting those boards. The only time I climbed up was to take a picture so I ended up doing the bulk of the work today fetching bricks, water and hoisting cement from the ground in buckets. During lunch I took a great video of
me playing with Oso the dog, the boy who lives next door, and my lunch. Since it takes so long to upload photos alone I will have to wait until I return to the USA to upload the videos (in high quality). Also at lunch I told my host-mom that the bootleg man didn't lower the price for me today when I bought more music and dvds and she told me to pretend to buy CDs next time and REFUSE him when he tells me the price and tell him he needs to be generous. After much cement mixing and brick laying all day, we are very close to finishing. After adding one or two lines of bricks and filling in some gaps in the sides and ceiling with cement we will be done!! Probably tom
orrow! English class was again very fun. I evaluated presentations and played telephone with a team. Unfortunately my team cheated like no other, but then again they were probably the best at speaking English out of the class. Much of the class was an introduction and follow up questions to Tim, a veteran of El Sauce, which was very funny (Can you write your name in the white board? No, I can't in the white board, but I can ON the white board!) To conclude the day I refilled my water bottles with purified water and went to the bar Viajeros with Tim, Yaca, Kellan, and Irene. I am very excited for my trip to Leon tomorrow. I can't wait to ride el Cerro Negro, I just hope I don't get any sunburn! (photos: the scaffolding, the nearly finished wall, and two students from English class)
to finish the first week of my project. We didn't completely finish the wall but we came very close. Pepe and Noel set up scaffolding, which would never pass a New York inspection, in fact within the first few minutes one of the supports nearly collapsed while Noel was standing on the supported boards!! PEPE!! Yo grité jaja. The scaffolding only consisted of ladders, nails, and planks of wood, some of which were for standing on and others were for supporting those boards. The only time I climbed up was to take a picture so I ended up doing the bulk of the work today fetching bricks, water and hoisting cement from the ground in buckets. During lunch I took a great video of 
me playing with Oso the dog, the boy who lives next door, and my lunch. Since it takes so long to upload photos alone I will have to wait until I return to the USA to upload the videos (in high quality). Also at lunch I told my host-mom that the bootleg man didn't lower the price for me today when I bought more music and dvds and she told me to pretend to buy CDs next time and REFUSE him when he tells me the price and tell him he needs to be generous. After much cement mixing and brick laying all day, we are very close to finishing. After adding one or two lines of bricks and filling in some gaps in the sides and ceiling with cement we will be done!! Probably tom
orrow! English class was again very fun. I evaluated presentations and played telephone with a team. Unfortunately my team cheated like no other, but then again they were probably the best at speaking English out of the class. Much of the class was an introduction and follow up questions to Tim, a veteran of El Sauce, which was very funny (Can you write your name in the white board? No, I can't in the white board, but I can ON the white board!) To conclude the day I refilled my water bottles with purified water and went to the bar Viajeros with Tim, Yaca, Kellan, and Irene. I am very excited for my trip to Leon tomorrow. I can't wait to ride el Cerro Negro, I just hope I don't get any sunburn! (photos: the scaffolding, the nearly finished wall, and two students from English class)
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