It's been really cool to see a custom form among our group....we begin and end the day with food! It's great to get to know everyone over breakfast, enjoy some Nicaraguan coffee, and just gear up for the day. By the time we get to back here for dinner it's usually 8pm or so and we all share our stories from the day, laugh a WHOLE lot, and just relax.
Well after we had breakfast we jumped on the bus as soon as we could. We all noticed that today was going to be a scorcher! While on the bounciest, jerkiest, roughest bus ride you can imagine, Guy somehow managed to write down everyone's coffee orders so that we could buy some for real Nicaraguan coffee from Pastor Donugo's farm.
When we got to the site we learned from Brian that the people in these remote areas go to bed probably by 8 or 9pm and are all up around 4am. We learned that there are about 40 different people who signed up to volunteer along side with us throughout the course of this week. Those people are usually at the site by no later than 6am. Due to when breakfast is available and the 1 1/2 hour drive to get there, we don't get there until 10am or so. Usually the day's work is already under way when we arrive which is kinda nice 'cause the momentum is already going and we just jump right in. It's interesting to have learned all this 'cause some of us were wondering why the Nicaraguans were beat at about 4pm....while we are going on until after dark. It has been so awesome getting to know some of these volunteers despite the language barrier.
Anyways, today we just dug and dug and dug and dug and dug and du............you get the picture. We dug all of the foundation trenches and began wiring the re bar together so we can poor the foundation. Hopefully we can finish the wiring tomorrow and poor all of the foundation. For lunch we had Peliwe, and half goat half sheep animal that you only find here. It was kinda like mutton. Really good though.
On the way home tonight we ran into some interesting things. Somehow the company delivering our gravel and sand for cement, manuvered these big semi dump trucks back to the site. But because they didn't have the weight of their load on the way out they couldn't get back out of the area because of the steep mountains and loose gravel roads. So we all got out of the bus and helped a flat bed truck get up the mountain and then the Bus Ninja stuck again. Lewis chained the Semi to the back of his bus and hauled the thing up the mountain! Hawhat!
Today was soooo hot and we all worked soooo hard and duuuuuuuuuuugggg soooo much and got soooo much done we are going to sleep like babies tonight. I think I hear my bed calling me now.
Hey guys, thanks for all your hard work. I know those buses all to well. When Steve and I visited NICA I was 7 months pregnant and rode the chicken buses. Hot, sticky, & way to large for the seat. But somehow, it didn't bother me. It sounds like your on a great adventure. A GOD adventure. Praise be to Him.
ReplyDeleteContinuing to pray for you guys. Sounds like God is blessing your week.
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