One month and three days after my arrival we just drove down from Las Minitas with the masons, who have spent three weeks there. Today they put the final exterior cement on the school and yesterday the roof. We are fast moving! Someone from the co…
I've started to take one long video of the commute to and from Las Minitas where we are buildig the school. The strangers who stand on the side of the road and we pick up. The farmers. The cows trotting down the road. The mountain. The giant pil…
First day of work: Meet Gustavo, the community leader, and the other guys who are helping to build the preschool through our Friends Project ... we are building the first preschool in Las Minitas, brick by brick! www.thefriendsproject.org See the…
By the end of the second day of hauling bricks from pile to preschool, soaking them in a barrel, pulling them out by nearly tipping myself into the deep plastic barrel, and then either handing them to the masons or laying them soaking wet around th…
This is day two of construction of the preschool up in Las Minitas. Sergio, our mason, laid the foundation ropes (if that's what they are called) and the guide ropes for the footprint. Guys from the community dug the trenches and foundation ho…
Excited to stay again with Anunsciacion and her family, including little Alfoncina and Fernando, who you likely recognize from the photos from our photo exhibitions as the cutie in the blue cap. I have a new game for us to play, and for Alfoncina…
So the preschool we are building with the farmers is about 400 meters below this spot. And what a lovely one it is.…
It’s our third day of work at the preschool in Las Minitas, where Sergio, our mason, is on his way up to begin work after Gustavo and other men (and some kids) from the community have dug a trench around the footprint and also the deep foundation h…
No water for like a week, and finally the internet works so I've got me a flurry of blogging. I'm exhausted, and not from riding in the back of a pick-up 4.5 hours up and down the mountain to the school and slowly roasting over a 100-degree o…
